The attached clipping is from the 9 Nov 1848 Charleston Southern Patriot. It reports the arraignment and subsequent guilty plea of one Susan Marshall, a Free Person of Color, who had left South Carolina and then returned, which was a violation of state law. Marshall was fined $300 and ordered to leave the state by December 10, unless she had been pardoned by "the Executive," which I take to mean the Governor. Should she have remained in South Carolina, she was threatened first by corporal punishment, and, in the event of continued recalcitrance, sale at public auction as a slave.
