21586103https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21586103TexasTravisCounty1091861District000022Travis County Courthouse, Austin, TexasRachel Hamilton, a "free person of african descent," petitions the court to "render a judgement and Decree" allowing her and her two-year-old son, Jim, to "be enslaved to" John D. Bowen of Travis County in accordance with the law passed by the state legislature in 1858.Voluntary enslavementFamily kept together (Black)