Three hundred nineteen women "of the city of Wilmington" seek the abolition of slavery. They represent that they are "in the firm persuasion that Slavery is inconsistent with the sentiments nobly avowed in the Declaration of Independence, which secures unto all men the unalienable rights, with which they are endowed by their Creator." They therefore pray that the legislature "take into consideration the propriety of adopting resolutions, which, by abolishing slavery throughout this state, shall forever relieve it from a burden oppressive both to master and slave."
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
