Fifty-seven petitioners, members of "the Delaware Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the relief and protection of free Negroes and mulattoes unlawfully held in bondage or otherwise oppressed" and others, seek enforcement of the law prohibiting the slave trade. In addition, they ask "that untill the happy day arrives when it [slavery] may be totally abolished some measures may be adopted to restrain the punishment of Slaves, at the mere will and pleasure of their Masters, which is often very tyrannically and cruelly exercised, and which may legally extend to every thing but murder."
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
