A group of Quakers present their petition to the legislature to protest the suffering of free blacks whose "undoubted" rights are being violated with impunity because enforcement of the law that protects such right is not applied with enough vigor to discourage perpetrators. They specifically represent that children who have been emancipated by will but placed under white guardianship during their minority are carried out of state and sold as slaves; and adults in the enjoyment of their freedom are kidnapped and taken away and enslaved. The petitioners pray that the laws be revised to halt these practices.
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