Luce Dambard, a free woman of color, presents to the court that she is the owner of her fifty-year-old mother named Sophia, whom she purchased at a public auction for the specific purpose of emancipating her. She declares that, for "these four years past," Sophia has never run away or committed any crime that "might by law prevent her from enjoying the privilege of being set free." Luce Dambard therefore asks the court to be authorized to "affranchise and set free" her mother and to order that the "necessary process" to that effect be "had according to law."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
