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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670441

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Harrison Bliss, Worcester; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. John Milton Earle
2. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
3. Thomas Drew
4. Benjamin Goddard
5. James A. Whipple
6. Effingham L. Capron
7. Isaac Mason
8. A.G. Walker

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations

Total signatures: 123

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 123

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855

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.