Freedmen, in Charleston, South Carolina, present a petition to the State legislature to allow them to enter in lawsuits, and testify, against State sovereign Citizens of European descent. The petition is rejected.
NOTE: What is astonishing here, to the editors, is not that the petition was rejected, but that Charleston had a population of freedmen, whose freedom was respected.
[restored 10/17/2021]
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Authority:
South Carolina Constitution of 1778, Article XXXVIII
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/sc02.asp
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 47.
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