November 22, 1861
William Cooper Nell writes to Garrison, and encloses a petition, to the General Court of Massachusetts, printed here. The petition calls for the legislature to strike the word “white” “from the statute laws of this Commonwealth.”
Boston-based Abolitionist newspaper, published by William Lloyd Garrison, 1831-1865
November 22, 1861
William Cooper Nell writes to Garrison, and encloses a petition, to the General Court of Massachusetts, printed here. The petition calls for the legislature to strike the word “white” “from the statute laws of this Commonwealth.”