House Unpassed Legislation 1832, Docket 11838, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Lloyd Garrison

Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12176679 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:William Lloyd GarrisonIsaac KnappOliver JohnsonHenry R. StocktonDaniel HenshawSamuel GreeneNathaniel DanielsWilliam SnellingBenjamin BaconJoshua CoffinJohn FullerArnold BuffumEnoch PerkinsJohn T. HiltonSamuel E. SewallThomas ColeBenjamin R. Downes Actions taken on dates: 1832-02-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 2, 1832 and referred to a committee Total signatures: 19 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 19 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: act, 1786, section 7, repeal, marriage, constitution, declaration of independence, rights, happiness, unmanly and unchristian prejudice against persons of color, southern periodical, human affection and love, may as rationally legislate upon the size as the color of individuals, [many additional comments on race, see digitized document], [needs conservation] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1832, Docket 11838 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.