Thirty-eight Newberry District residents represent that Justine Birdie, a free woman of color, is "indebted to various persons Justly for medical Services & and that the law as it now stands affords no compulsory process by which she can be made to labor and thereby Settle her debts." They further submit that "if disposed She could Settle all of her debts, being Stout of body & having Children that are large enough to assist her in her work." The petitioners therefore pray "that an act be passed authorizing the Sale of the aforesaid Free Negroe Woman & children for such time as would be Sufficient to pay up all of her debts."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
