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Race, slavery, and free Blacks Series I, Petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867

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Loren Schweninger; Robert Shelton; Charles Edward Smith

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Reproduces a collection of nearly 3,000 petitions assembled over a period of ten years by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives for several states, including Kentucky.

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“Race, slavery, and free Blacks Series I, Petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867,” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed October 11, 2026, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/300001115.

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