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Dipow Mill Marengo Co April 22d 1867

Genl Swayne }
    Montgomery 

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Dr Sir
       There are three apprenticed 
children in this section, whose case I will now 
bring before you in as short way as possible. 
They were "bound" last Dec in a few hours after 
their mothers death,- they have an Uncle & Aunt 
who are doing well as freedmen and they have 
very feeling & appealed to to me to try and have these 
children released & as they are now in worse slave
ry than they ever were. This I firmly believe  
my-self - They say these children  are not permitted 
to visit any one, not even them (I mean the Uncle and Aunt) 
and are closely & watched all the time to keep them 
from running away, and that on one occasion 
when two of them did leave they were severly whip
ped . The above facts, I call your attention to 
and ask in behalf of these freemen that the child
 be released from their present servitude and return to 
their relatives who are not only willing, but able to 
support them - even better than Moore who appren
tice them - Their respective ages are 13,11,9 as 
learned from their relatives and are self supporting 
names of children Richmond Nancy and 
Allen apprenticed by Cornelius Moore, their former 
owners
by Respy
O.P. Slater

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