Marie Jeanne Willamie, a free woman of color, presents to the court that she intends to emancipate her fifty-year-old male slave named Manuel Martin. She explains that she has known Manuel Martin for a long while and is legally married to him. She vouches that he is "of good character" and has never "been addicted to any vice or crime" prohibited by the laws of the state "relative to the emancipation" of slaves. She asks the court to order that the "necessary notice" be posted up by the sheriff.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
