Enslaved Workers on the White House Grounds - Photo 7

This page of Henrietta Elzey's last will and testament leaves the following instructions: "As it has been my wish to manumit all my servants, should it appear that in any case their freedom is incomplete or doubtful. I hereby declare them all free and manumitted after my death. And I hereby authorize and require the executors of my last will and testament to execute and deliver to every of said manumitted slaves who may desire the same, such writings and instruments in law may be as necessary to secure to every such manumitted slave the full enjoyment of his or her freedom.