Petition #11283503

Abstract

Thirty-nine residents of Craven County contend that "there are many free negroes and mulattoes living in said county, who are of evil and bad habits, leading dissolute and immoral lives, and who, upon any insurrectionary movement, might be expected to join it with heart and hand." They charge that the free blacks "claim license to roam about and acquire guns and ammunition." Considering this population's "vagrant habits and roaming living as a nuisance requiring correction," the citizens therefore pray that a law be passed "requiring every free negro and free person of color to obtain a license from the county court before he could have or use a gun or ammunition." They urge a "remedy to the evil," especially "in times like these, when many of the citizens of the Northern states are disseminating among our slaves the firebrands of insurrection and blood."

Result: House: referred to committee.

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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

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