Charleston resident William Livingston appeals to the legislature for relief regarding the slave Dublin, who "hath been Confined in the Work House of this City for near these three Years last past." Livingston states that Dublin has been doomed "to perpetual Imprisonment for an Offence (which tho' highly Criminal)" does not warrant life in prison. He further argues that the "Magistrate and freeholders who passed such Sentence ... have exceeded the bounds of Jurisdiction with which they are legally invested." Livingston reveals that he and his minor brother and sister inherited said slave from their father's estate and that they "are greatly injured and agreeived, by being so Long deprived of his Labour and Service Contrary to Law and Equity." He "therefore now begs leave to remonstrate against the Proceedings had, and Sentence passed."
Result: Referred to committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
