Petition #11683411

Abstract

Eleven free men of color, "residing in the City of Richmond," represent "that by an act passed the 15th of March 1832, slaves, free negroes and mulattoes are prohibited from preaching, exhorting, conducting or holding any assembly or meeting for religious or other purposes; in consequence of which many coloured human beings are intered like brutes, their relatives and friends being unable to procure white ministers to perform the usual ceremony in the burial of the dead." The petitioners therefore pray "the passage of a law authorizing free persons of colour, as well as slaves, to perform the ceremony usual on such occasions by white ministers, provided they obtain a Licence for that purpose from the Pastor of the church to which they respectively belong for a limited period."

Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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