Slavery
Subtitle: the following petition is extracted from an American paper of late date
Contributors: United States. Congress
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Slavery; Early works to 1800; Law and legislation; Freedmen
Description: Petition addresses a law of North Carolina which makes anyone of African descent a slave.
Notes: Title from caption.

Petition addressed "To the President, Senate, and Representatives of the United States", dated 'Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 1797", and signed by the freemen Jacob Nicholson ... [et al.].

Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.