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Petition subject: Slave trade

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906064

Date of creation: 1777-01-13

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

Selected signatures:

1. Lancaster Hill
2. Peter Bess
3. Prince Hall
4. Jack Peirpont
5. Job Lock
6. Brister Slenser
7. Nero Funelo
8. Newport Sumner

Actions taken on dates: 1777-03-18

Legislative action: Committed on March 18, 1777

Total signatures: 8

Legislative action summary: Committed

Males of color signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a great number of negroes who are detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free and Christian country, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: [religious, additional documents in volumes, see pages 130-131]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 212, pages 132-132a

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.