Hancock County Petition, 1856 February 27

Content Warning: this broadside contains content discussing the laws surrounding chattel slavery.
Place of Publication: Hancock County
Index Card Notes: Memorial of the citizens of Va. to the general assembly, asking for certain reforms in the laws concerning slaves and free persons of color...we respectfully submit our petition, that the laws of Virginia, may be so modified as--to protect the parental relation, forbidding the separation of parents and young children...to recognize and secure the marital relation...to allow persons so disposed to teach persons of color to read so as to assist moral and mental elevation...etc. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Subject(s): Slavery, Reform in slavery laws.