House Unpassed Legislation 1859, inexpedient to legislate, SC1/series 230, Petition of William C. Nell

<p>Petition subject: Dred Scott decision </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018087">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018087</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1858-08-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George D. Wells, Greenfield; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William C. Nell</li><li>William Wells Brown</li><li>J. Burton Smith</li><li>Bela Colgrove Perry</li><li>Solomon Peneton</li><li>Charles Lenox Remond</li><li>Ebenezer Hemenway</li><li>Lewis Hayden</li><li>Robert Morris</li><li>George Allen</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-14,1859-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1859 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 10 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 10 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: petitioners, undersigned, memorialists, freemen and citizens of Massachusetts, [males of color], ["colored citizens"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: From mass convention of colored citizens on August 1, 1858 at New Bedford; printed and handwritten texts; includes note, second protest against Dred Scott decision, supreme court </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, inexpedient to legislate </p> <p>Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p>