Cesario Bias "is desirous of emancipating" a forty-year-old slave named Lewis Morgan. Bias asserts that Morgan "has been a faithful obedient slave to your petitioner for years." He notes that Morgan "has served your petitioner now for a long time and has earned for him more than his present value." Believing "that he is a boy of good character and has always behaved himself correctly and properly," Bias begs leave to request that the slave "be set free and emancipated agreeable to the acts now in force in this state."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
