Petition #11481903

Abstract

James Jones, president of the Manumission Society of Tennessee, represents that said Society is "encouraged to hope that you will devise a plan for a total Emancipation, calculated at the same time to leave the white population in the ample enjoyment and possession of their property which ... may be effected by passing a law that all the Children of slaves which may be born after a certain period shall be free at a proper age; and that the owners of slaves be permitted to liberate all such as are capable of procuring a living, without any responsibility on the part of the Emancipator." The society would also "suggest the propriety of the interposition of Legislative authority to put an end to the inhuman and Barbarous practice of trading in human flesh" and the breaking up of black families.

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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

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