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1788 petition

Prince Hall's 1788 petition to end the slave trade

This petition was presented to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by a number of freemen of Boston led by Prince Hall. It protests the unlawful seizure of three free Black men who were kidnapped in Boston Harbor and taken to the West Indies to be sold into slavery

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