Is there any situation when a male or female slave or free black person in colonial South Carolina could have spoken in a legal forum (a court, or the Assembly, or before a governor, etc), perhaps, for instance, at the request of a white defendant? If so, are there any such cases documented? If there was no such permission ever granted by law, are there any irregular cases of such a person doing so anyway? I am most interested in a court situation, but I'm curious about other contexts as well.
Thank you in advance,
Fred Witzig, Monmouth College, IL