House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1286, SC1/series 230, Petition of Elsy Fisk

<p>Petition subject: Against the repeal of the interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029524">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029524</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel L. Gibbens, Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Elsy Fisk</li><li>Frances Mero</li><li>Lois Akins</li><li>Henrietta Fowler</li><li>Ann D. Witt</li><li>Lucy Peters</li><li>Patience Rose</li><li>Margret Niles</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 21 </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 21 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: colored women, [females of color] </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1286 </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>