Twenty-nine slaveholders in Greenbrier County seek to prohibit, or restrain, free persons of color from the North from entering Virginia. The petitioners contend that free blacks come as barbers, waiters, drivers, and visitors; they come from Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and other cities; and they sow "discord and disaffection" among slaves and urge them to run away.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
