The Society of Friends, acknowledging the difficulties attendant to the desirable complete eradication of slavery, seeks alleviation of the suffering it causes and amelioration of the degraded condition of the slave population. Specifically, the Friends seek the passing of laws to eliminate the domestic slave trade, which allows "purchasing numbers of those unfortunate Persons, and carrying them out of the limits of this state; often to places, where the rigors of Slavery are multiplied, and the bitterness of their unhappy Situation increased." They also ask for an end to the forcible separation of black families.
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
