Senate Bill No. 8
Subtitle: a bill to permit free persons of color to select their own masters and become slaves
By: North Carolina. General Assembly, 1860-1861
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slaves; Legal status, laws; African Americans; Slavery; Law and legislation
Other titles: Bill to permit free persons of color to select their own masters and become slaves; Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: Senate bill, no. 8 : ses. 1860-'61 / introuced [sic] by Mr. Humphrey, of Onslow. [Raleigh, NC?] : John Spelman, printer to the State, [1861?] 3 p. Caption title: A bill to permit free persons of color to select their own masters and become slaves.

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