Mary, a woman of color, asserts "that she is free that her mother was a free white woman." She reveals that for the last twenty years "she has now been in the possession of Mr Antonio Zanone ... who has treated her as a slave." Mary prays "that she be decreed to be, what she is, free -- and that deft be decreed to pay over to her so much money as she shall be found to be entitled to." In her amended petition, Mary details her past. She recounts that "she is the offspring of an illicit, sexual intercourse between that mother & a negro man." She explains that her white mother gave her away when she was a baby "to avoid the infamy which would attach to her wherever she might go, accompanied by her mulatto child." Mary states that "for several years past she has been told by several persons at several times, that she was a free woman." She recounts that she was "owned by a rich man, as he pretended, as a slave, driven as a slave, whipped as a slave, fed as a slave, clothed as a slave." Renewing her request for freedom and compensation, Mary poses several questions for the defendant to answer in court.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
