Esther v. Akins' heirs

David Rice, deceased, being the owner of several slaves, Dick, Edith, and the children of Edith, devised Dick to one of his sons, the “use of Edith” to a daughter, andas to the children of Edith, made the following devise; “But it is my null that the children that the said ‘■‘Edith now has, may be free, as well as those she may “have hereafter, the males when they shall severally ar“rive at the age of 25 — the females when they shall ar“rive at the age of 23 years. This because freedom is a “natural and inalienable right, belonging to them as well “as others, of which the proprietor of man…