Petition #11682706

Abstract

Colonizing free people of color is "the safest and least objectionable mode of diminishing one of the greatest evils in our social condition," assert seventy-seven citizens of Rockbridge County. They petition to encourage the Virginia legislature--the first to propose colonizing the black population--to pursue the cause "with increasing energy."

Result: Referred to select committee.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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