Twenty-six Delaware citizens seek the return of Benjamin Benson, a free man of color who was "kidnaped by some evil disposed person or persons concerned in the traffic of human flesh near our town and taken & sold in the county of Guilford State of North Carolina for a slave during life." They report that "by the laudable assistance of a friend to Humanity in that State we have his case in a fair way to recover his freedom But it appears to be absolutely necessary to effect an object so desireable that his person should be Identified in a court of Justice qualified to hear said case." They ask the governor to appoint a person from Delaware who is acquainted with Benson to go to North Carolina and identify him as a free man.
Result: House: read, referred to committee.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
