<petition><petition_analysis_number>11279303</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11279303</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county></county><file_day>26</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1793</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House, Senate: read, referred</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Darby Henagan seeks to emancipate "two molatto slaves almost white" named Penny and Ned whose mother and grandmother served him meritoriously for years.  "Advanced in life," Henagan acknowledges his "abhorrence &amp; detestation of seeing persons of mixed blood in slavery which are almost white."  He therefore "most ardently prays your Honble body to pass a Law to liberate the aforesaid Molatto children."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject></subjects></petition>