Petition #21184812

Abstract

Peggy Perryman, a woman of color, represents that, "while visiting friends in Arkansas in the enjoyment of her freedom and civil rights," she was "suddenly seized ... gaged and transported and finally sold into servitude" by persons to her "before unknown." She avers that her father is a free person of color in Arkansas and her mother is an "Indian of the Black foot Tribe" whose people are "not only free since the memory of man but are distinguished among this Tribe." Perryman, currently restrained by Joseph Philibert, asks for permission to sue as a poor person in order to establish her right to freedom.

Result: Petition granted; plea of trespass filed, dismissed.

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Repository: Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri

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