Petition to the Massachusetts legislature from Prince Hall and “a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of slavery in the Bowels of a free and Christian Country,” asking that slavery be abolished in Massachusetts

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Petition to the Massachusetts legislature from Prince Hall and “a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of slavery in the Bowels of a free and Christian Country,” asking that slavery be abolished in Massachusetts

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Title: Petition to the Massachusetts legislature from Prince Hall and “a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of slavery in the Bowels of a free and Christian Country,” asking that slavery be abolished in Massachusetts

Date: 1777/01/13 (for pg. 132)

Type of Resource: Text

Format: 2 documents : ink on paper

Subject: Hall, Prince, 1748-1807

Subject: Massachusetts. General Court

Subject: Slavery--Massachusetts

Coverage: Massachusetts

Language: en

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Record Group: SC1

Series: 45x

File Unit: 0280

Identifier: v. 212 p. 130-132

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William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth

Petition to the Massachusetts legislature from Prince Hall and “a great number of Negroes who are detained in a state of slavery in the Bowels of a free and Christian Country,” asking that slavery be abolished in Massachusetts

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