William Holland, MSA SC 5496-51623

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William Holland
MSA SC 5496-51623
Slaveholder/State Delegate, Committee on Colored Population, Dorchester County

Biography:

William Holland represented Dorchester County in the

Thought there is little evidence that Holland had been a recent victim of slave flight, he undoubtedly had neighbors and relations who lost members of their labor force. Interestingly, the Dorchester farmer had lived just down the road from Samuel Green Sr. Green was a free African American, who became the target of local whites after a rash of fugitive escapes in 1857. Holland's former neighbor was ultimately jailed for possession of the "abolitionist handbill" Uncle Tom's Cabin, when his involvement in the escapes could not be proven.

Mr. Holland, from the committee on Colored Population, made the following minority report: A bill entitled, an act to amend the 65th article of thecode of public local laws, by repealing the 42d, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 53d, 55th, 56th,
57th, 58th and 59th sections of said article, and inserting inlieu thereof, the following sections providing agents for the management of free negroes, and prescribing their powers and duties; prohibiting manumission and the acquiring of land by free negroes, or granting license to them, and forbidding and punishing the immigration of free negroes; Also, the bill entitled, an act to repeal the 19th article of the code of public general laws, which provides for the appointment of managers for the removal of free negroes, prescribes their powers and duties, and the mode of their exercise;

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