Petition #21281601

Abstract

Petitioning in conjunction with his eighteen-year-old slave Rebecca, planter Solomon Parks asks for a license of emancipation. Rebecca has served him with distinction, and has "conducted herself uprightly, honestly, morrally, religiously, & faithfully." She is literate, Parks says, and would not be a burden on society.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

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