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Petition: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858354

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: South Reading

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward Mansfield, South Reading; joint select committee on slavery

Top signatures:

1. Reuben Emerson
2. Daniel W. Phillips
3. Elbridge Sweetser

Actions taken o
n dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 244

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 244

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

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

Additional archivist notes: Women started to sign the petition and were crossed out; "m.d."/doctor next to a signature

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archi
ves 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.