10382602https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382602DelawareNew CastleCounty1011826Legislative001Delaware State Archives, Dover, DelawareThe Wilmington Society of Friends, at their monthly meeting, urge the legislature to immediately abolish slavery. Arguing that slavery is evil, unjust, and oppressive, the petitioners put forth that "we believe it to be a truth, that in oppression, cruel suffering, and degradation, negro Slavery remains without a parallel in the known world."Education and literacy (enslaved)ChurchesWhippingAbolitionSlave trade (domestic)Slave trade (Atlantic)Family separated (Black)White affection (enslaved family)Manumission