Aimée Canonge prays the court to order "the publications required by law" for the emancipation of her twenty-four-year-old "very light" quarteroon slave named Maria and Maria's five-year-old child, Marguerite, both of whom she purchased at a public sale earlier in the year. She presents to the court the following detailed account of how she had come to purchase Maria and Marguerite, and to seek emancipation for them. When Maria and Marguerite, who had been abandoned by their former owner to his creditors, were put on the auction table, they "excited a general sympathy. The by-standers declared that they would be sold only under the condition that the new purchaser would manumit them." Maria and Marguerite were thus "adjudicated" to Aimée Canonge for $100. Aimée Canonge vouches that Maria has proven to be a "faithful servant, and has treated respectfully her former masters." She feels, therefore, that she owes it to the "public who manifested such a great interest in the case to fulfill the formalities prescribed by law" for the manumission of Maria and Marguerite.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
