Petition #20883516

Abstract

Nancey Jackson, a free woman of color, petitions to recover her freedom and that of her children. Nancey represents that she was born free around 1798 in Richmond, Virginia, and that her mother, Alsa Romand, also known as Alsa Jackson, "is, and was at the time of Petitioners birth, a free woman." Beginning in 1822, Nancey annually recorded her emancipation papers, "understanding it to have been necessary to a strict compliance with the laws." In 1833 she and her children, Susan, Samuel, and Henry, were illegally seized by "a band of armed white men" in the night "whilst asleep in their own rented home." They were "made prisoners of, kidnaped, and immediately conveyed to a strong house, or Prison, belonging to Ballard the great dealer in slaves" in Richmond. They were then sent via ship to Louisiana where they were sold as slaves to Dr. Gideon C. Forsythe "at the English turn of the Mississippi river in the Parish of Plaquemines." Nancey prays for recognition of her free status and that of her children, as well as $1,000 "for her services and that of her children, and for damages which they have suffered in their Captivity and bondage."

Result: Denied.

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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

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