Petition #11486001

Abstract

Ninety-three residents of Wilson County "are satisfied that the Slave property of this State is seriously injured [by] the contact and association with the free negro population and that some legislation is absolutely necessary to remedy this evil." They believe that "the entire free negro population should be removed from the State" and that "no negro should be permitted to be liberated unless ample pecuniary provision be made for his immediate removal to Liberia." In their opinion, "the free negro population of this state is generally lazy worthless and engaged in trading with the slave race & injuring their morals & the property of the masters." The petitioners therefore "call upon your honorable body to enact such laws as will drive them from the state or that will secure the Slaveholders from the evil that now exists from the effect of the free negro population."

Result: Referred to committee on free negro and slave population.

10 people are documented within petition 11486001

Or you may view all people.

Citation information

Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

Subjects