Marie Thérèse Villanueva, a free woman of color also known as Zémire, presents to the police jury that she is the owner of an eight-year-old slave named Edouard Louis, also known as Charles Edwin. She explains that Edouard Louis is an orphan whom, to fulfill a promise, she has raised with the greatest of care and apprenticed into a trade, and whom she now wishes to free because he has responded well to her kindness. She asks the police jury to give her the dispensation required to free a slave under the legal age and to exempt him to leave the state where he was born, as proven by an extract from his baptism certificate [Original in French].
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
