Rene Peter David reveals that he is the father of three young children, "all of the class called Mulattoes the offspring of a female the property of your petitioner." He admits that "it had all along been his attention to avail himself of the benefit of the Laws on this Subject which existed prior to the act of the Legislature passed in the Session of 1820." The petitioner therefore makes "this application to your honorable Body anxiously hoping that you will adopt such measures as may confer on them the blessings of emancipation." David assures the legislature that "it is his happiness to be enabled to state that he has sufficient property to secure the comfort, and Independence of his said children" and it shall "be the pleasure & interest of your petitioner to maintain them decently & to make them useful members of Society."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
