My Boy Mack has my Permission to sleep in a house in Bedon's Alley, hired by his Mother this ticket is good for two months from this date Sarah H. Savage Sep_ber 19th, 1843
This slave pass, or permission note, is one of three found in 1934 in a Book of Common Prayer. The book was donated to the College of Charleston by Daniel Horlbeck in 1875.
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