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The Colored population of Georgia

--A bill has passed the Georgia Legislature which provides that every free person of color who has reached the age of fourteen years, may choose an owner and go into voluntary servitude for life; that parents may choose owners for their children when the latter are under fourteen years of age; and that all free persons of color found in that State after the first of May, 1862, who have taken no steps to select owners, shall be liable to seizure and sale as a slave for life.

The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 14, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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