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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005525

Date of creation: 1851-04-04

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester

Selected signatures:

1. William A. White
2. Cornelius Bramhall
3. John T. Sargent
4. William I. Bowditch
5. Samuel G. Howe
6. Theodore Parker
7. Bourne Spooner
8. Robert Morris
9. Francis Jackson
10. William C. Nell
11. Robert F. Wallcut
12. Charles K. Whipple
13. Edmund Quincy
14. Edmund Jackson
15. Samuel May Jr.
16. Loring Moody

Actions taken on dates: 1851-04-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 4, 1851 and laid on the table

Total signatures: 28

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Request for a public meeting on the arrest of a citizen under the fugitive slave bill

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 2726

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.