Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Wendell Phillips

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857940">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857940</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen Fairbanks, Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Wendell Phillips</li><li>George Tyler Bigelow</li><li>John C. Park</li><li>David Carver Jr.</li><li>George William Phillips</li><li>John C. Phillips</li><li>Henry I. Bowditch</li><li>Thomas R. Kimball</li><li>Benjamin Weeden</li><li>William W. Wise</li><li>James H. Dix</li><li>Horatio Davis</li><li>William C. Brown</li><li>Henry Chapman</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 144 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 144 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males 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>: Printed </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: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </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>