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Petition subject: Against the repeal of the interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029524

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel L. Gibbens, Boston

Selected signatures:

1. Elsy Fisk
2. Frances Mero
3. Lois Akins
4. Henrietta Fowler
5. Ann D. Witt
6. Lucy Peters
7. Patience Rose
8. Margret Niles

Total signatures: 21

Females of color signatures: 21

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: colored women, [females of color]

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 1843, Docket 1286

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.