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House Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Lydia Maria Child

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Lydia Maria Child
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4BOYA
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956325

Date of creation: 1839-03-20

Petition location: Northampton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

  1. Lydia Maria Child

Total signatures: 1

Female signatures: 1

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: free-born woman, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1839, Docket 577

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Manuscript
George Bradburn, Nantucket
Lydia Maria Child
females
free-born woman
Yes
1
1
 
Date 1839-03-20