11682706https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11682706VirginiaRockbridgeCounty15121827Legislativereferred to select committee0010Library of Virginia, Richmond, VirginiaColonizing free people of color is "the safest and least objectionable mode of diminishing one of the greatest evils in our social condition," assert seventy-seven citizens of Rockbridge County. They petition to encourage the Virginia legislature--the first to propose colonizing the black population--to pursue the cause "with increasing energy."Colonization to resettleWhite affection (FPOC)