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[Petition letter to United States Congress]
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States
Unsigned and undated petition letter the the United States Congress, arguing for the abolishment of slavery.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

List of 108 names to petition for use of Faneuil Hall
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston
Signed petition of 108 names for the use of Feneuil Hall [Boston, Massachusetts] in January 1839 for a gathering [probably for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society].
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

A. S. Petition for the rights of the Col'd Citizen
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.)
Petition letter [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] asking the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protest in United States Supreme Court against the wrongful imprisonment of "colored citizens"...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Petition letter in opposition to the American Colonization Society]
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--England--London; Antislavery movements--England--London; African Americans--Colonization--Africa
Petition denying support for the American Colonization Society, signed by William Wilberforce and 12 others in London, 1833.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Petition to Gov. to fill the office of Agt. For Col'd Seamen
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Louisiana--New Orleans; Slavery--South Carolina--Charleston
Petition [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill to act as an agent for "colored seamen" in the ports of Charleston [South Carolina] and New Orleans [Louisiana].
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

[Petition against the removal of Judge Edward G. Loring from office]
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston
Manuscript copy of a signed petition against the removal of Judge Edward G. Loring from office.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Bradburns Petition
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.)
Unsigned and undated petition to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

S. E. Sewall's Draft of a Petition
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.)
Undated draft of a petition by S. E. Sewall to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

Mayor & Aldermen, Fanueil Hall, Refused
Abolitionists--United States; Antislavery movements--United States; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--Law and legislation--Washington (D.C.)
Letter to the Mayor [Samuel Atkins Eliot] and Aldermen of Boston [Massachusetts] from Francis Jackson and 11 other committee members [of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] arguing a recent denial for permission to use Faneuil Hall for a...
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery

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