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Petition subject: Abolition of the slave trade

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12176678

Date of creation: 1788-02-27

Petition location: [Boston]

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Prince Hall
2. Primus Hall
3. John King
4. Boston Ballard
5. [John Matlock?]
6. Britton Balch
7. Cyrus Forbes
8. Thomas Saunderson
9. Lancaster Hill
10. Cato Underwood
11. Sharper Gardner
12. Juba Hill
13. Richard Pollard
14. William Smith
15. James Pell
16. John Cooper
17. Joseph Hicks
18. James Hicks
19. George Miller
20. James Hooker
21. Matthew Cox
22. Cato Gray
23. Robert Jackson

Actions taken on dates: 1788-03-14,1788-03-19,1788-03-20,1788-03-20,1788-03-26

Legislative action: Act received in the Senate on March 14, 1788, read several times, passed, and sent down for concurrence and received in the House on March 19, 1788 and read and concurred with amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 20, 1788 and read and concurred with nonconcurrence and changes to the amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 20, 1788 and concurred and enacted March 26, 1788

Total signatures: 23

Legislative action summary: Received, read, passed, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, concurred, enacted

Males of color signatures: 23

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a great number of blacks, free men of this commonwelth, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: seamen, kidnapping, sold for slaves, Africa

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1787, c.48, passed March 26, 1788

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.