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An Act to emancipate Lucinda Jefferson. 1821 23 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0052 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSIS1PPI. and reasonable, to be paid out of the county treasury of the 1821 eaaid county. COWLES MEAD, ,Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES PATTON, Lieut. Gov. and President of the Senate. -APPROVED, NOVEMBER 24, 1821. GEO. POINDEXTER. CHAP. XXV. An Act, to enancipate Lucinda Jefferson. iikh s, it is represented to the General Assembly, that John Hopkins, esq. of the county of Jefferson, did some yea,,s ago purchase a girl as a slave, which he then believed and still believes to be the offspring of free white parents, ivho had by fraud or some other disgraceful device, been nade to pass as a slave, and as such brought to this State and sold: And whereas, It is represented by a paper ad- rreamblk. dressed to one of the members of the General Assembly, sigaed by the said John Hopkins, esquire, and tested by James Stuart of said county, that it is the wish of the said John Hopkins, that the said girl whom he now calls Lucinda Jefferson, be restored to her natural, political and civil rights: And whereas, The disposition of said John Hopkins, philanthropic as a man; honorable as a citizen; and evincive of his sacred regard to liberty-Therefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate dnd House of Representa- tives of the State of Mississtppi, in General Assembly convened, That the said girl, Lucinda Jefferson, is hereby emancipated Lucinda and set free from slavery, and she is invested with all the Jefferson Yights, privileges, and immunities of any other free white fe- emancipa, male in this State. ted, COWLES MEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JAMES PATTON, Lieut. Gov. and President of the Senate. APPROYED, NOVEMBER 24, 1821. GEO. POINDEXTER.

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