Petition #10384908

• filing started February 6, 1849.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware

Abstract

Ninety-one petitioners, "votable citizens of the State of Delaware, respectfully ask that you will enact such laws, as in your wisdom, may be deemed necessary for the immediate abolition of slavery in Delaware, with the least possible injury to vested rights."

Result: House: presented, read.

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: See PARs #10384906 through #10384910
• Pages of related documents: 0

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• General Assembly, Legislative Papers
• Record group: 1111
• Page: 502-505
• Microfilm: 502-505

Subjects

• Abolition
• Manumission