Petition #11280304

Abstract

Thirteen inhabitants of Stokes County petition to "freely assist" the owners of a slave named Aaron in their prayer that the said Aaron be manumitted. They certify that Aaron, who lives in Salem, is "Submissive, humble, faithful, Industrious, sober and devout in his conduct" and that he is "worthy of a better Fate than to be for life a Slave." "Rare as it is," they declare, "yet there are Men of Black colour who deserve to be free," and they believe that "If therefore your honorable body ever intend to give Liberty to any human being your memorialists humbly conceive that the said Aaron is an Object deserving it."

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

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