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Title:[Legal petition] [to] Tennessee State Legislature / Citizens of Bedford County, Tennessee : a machine readable transcription of an image
Author:Citizens of Bedford County, Tennessee
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This work is the property of the Special Collections Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. For all other use contact the Special Collections Librarian, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee, 1401 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996. (865) 974-4480.

Date: ca. 1850
Extent: 2 p
Summary:This document is a legal petition signed by the citizens of Bedford County, Tennessee. The petition asks for a clause to be entered into the state Constitution that will emancipate all of the slaves held in Tennessee by the year 1866. Both slaveholding and non-slaveholding citizens signed the petition.
Collection:Memorial to the Honorable Convention of the State of Tennessee
Box:MS-1190
Folder:n/a
Document:sc057
Keywords:



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MEMORIALTo the Honorable Convention of the State of Tennessee , to convene in Nashville in May next.

[added: from Bedford Co [County] ]WE your humble Petitioners knowing the evil of SLAVERY, and believing that our State has, and yet continues to labour [labor] under disadvantages, which cannot be remedied while Slavery is tolerated by her laws, pray your Honorable Body, to insert a clause in the revized [revised] or amended Constitution of this State, affecting the gradual emancipation of Slaves, so that it shall be a free state against the year 1866.

2d. [Second] And make it the duty of the Legislature to Colonize them, when they are emancipated and we your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

SLAVEHOLDERS NON-SLAVEHOLDERS
Allen [unclear: Lecper ] John Fisher
William D. Ewing Ezekiel C Cook
James Miller James Battan
Allen N Woods William Bills
Jos. [Joseph] O. Dysart [unclear: Thos. [Thomas]Coffey ]
Sam J. Cuningham Andrew Miller
Robt [Robert] Dysart James W. Coffey
John Miller James L. Woods
Samuel Ramsey John Dysart Senr [Senior]
John Dysart Andrew Dysart
James L Ewing L D Stockton
Sherwood Baty Allen Coffey
Robert Williams Milton H Dysart
VB Martin
M R Wallis
Daniel C [unclear: Percy ]
William Martin
Alexr [Alexander]. C Denry
Joel Bradley
Samuel [unclear: Dyders ]
Francis B. Woods
John McClarey
Robert W Dysert
John H Miller
James Fullerton
Robert Cowdon
Reuben Yarbrough
Robert C Dysart
Albert Anderson
Edwin C Hunter
Jos [Joseph] H Miller
James Patterson



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[added: Citizens of Bedford
Slavery]

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