(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Petition for legal residence by a fr

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Petition for legal residence by a free black man in Tennessee. Document Signed by mark, one page, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches, with docketing on verso; folds, toning, minor wear. Shelby County, TN, October 1843

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"Your petitioner Duncan George . . . states that he was born free in the state of Georgia, that he removed to Bedford County, this state, some twenty three years since, that he had his free papers there recorded, and some eleven years that he afterwards removed to Davidson County, this state, & had his papers there registered. . . . Should he remove from the state that he would have to be located among strangers and strange laws, that his associates are here." The petition requests that George be allowed a legal residence in Shelby County according to the 1842 "Act to Amend the Laws Now in Force in Relation to Free Persons of Color."