Thirty-two citizens of Sussex County seek the repeal of a Delaware law of 1827 prohibiting the exportation of slaves to any other state or territory. The petitioners complain that the law had "a most powerful tendency to render Slaves disobedient and Consequently far less useful and valuable to their owners than they would otherwise be, leading at the same time to the exportation of many Slaves contrary to this law and to many and indeed to a great portion of the frequent Cases of Kidnapping with which Your Courts of Justice are so often resorted to in vain for redress by the enforcement of this law."
Result: House: presented, read; senate: read.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
