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[Petition by inhabitants of Pennsylvania for effecting change in the Constitution for the abolition of slavery]

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Title	[Petition by inhabitants of Pennsylvania for effecting change in the Constitution for the abolition of slavery]
Collection title	Slavery Collection
Series Title	Series VII: Legal Documents, 1709-1858, and undated
Subseries Title	Subseries 3. Petitions, 1709/1780, 1777, and undated
Item ID	nyhs_sc_b-06_f-02_007
Institution	New-York Historical Society
Description	One-page petition, possibly dating from the 1830s, signed by eighteen inhabitants of Pennsylvania regarding the abolition of slavery. Many signatures illegible. Possibly a fragment of a larger petition.
Subject	Slavery--United States Slavery--Pennsylvania Antislavery movements--America
Material type of original	Petitions
Publisher of digital	New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 212-873-3400
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

Title	nyhs_sc_b-06_f-02_007-001
Rights management	This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the New-York Historical Society. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Rights and Reproductions Department web page at http://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions for more information.

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