21586008https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21586008TexasPolkCounty2231860District000011Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New YorkGabriel Todd, a free man of color, declares that "he desires to avail himself of the law permitting him to select a master and become a slave." He believes Edward D. Martin "to be a proper person," and he asks for a decree permitting him "to be the slave of the said Edward D. Martin."Voluntary enslavement