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Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws and against railroad discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029513

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel C. Allen, Northfield

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. William Lloyd Garrison

Legislative action: Laid on table, lost

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Laid on table, lost

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: On behalf of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A

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.