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Domestic News
April 27, 1836
Morning Star
Limerick, York County, Maine
What is this article about?
Massachusetts legislative committee receives evidence on colored citizens imprisoned and sold in Southern states due to their color, including Boston natives; no action to be taken this year.
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Rights of Colored Citizens. We understand that the Committee of the Legislature on the memorial of George Odiorne and others have received evidence of facts that make a deep impression. They learn that citizens of Massachusetts have been imprisoned merely on account of their color, and even advertised for sale, in the Southern states; that there are laws of those states, according to which this has been done; and that natives of Boston have been among the sufferers. Such facts have been known to our readers for years. We hope they will now receive attention. An abstract of the law of South Carolina was published in the last Volume of the Recorder, page 180.
P. S. It will be seen by our Legislative journal, that nothing is to be done this year on this subject.
[Bost. Recorder.
P. S. It will be seen by our Legislative journal, that nothing is to be done this year on this subject.
[Bost. Recorder.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Slave Related
Legal Or Court
What keywords are associated?
Colored Citizens Rights
Massachusetts Imprisonment
Southern States Laws
Boston Natives
South Carolina Law
What entities or persons were involved?
George Odiorne
Where did it happen?
Massachusetts
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Massachusetts
Key Persons
George Odiorne
Outcome
nothing is to be done this year on this subject
Event Details
Committee of the Legislature on the memorial of George Odiorne and others have received evidence that citizens of Massachusetts have been imprisoned merely on account of their color, and even advertised for sale, in the Southern states; that there are laws of those states, according to which this has been done; and that natives of Boston have been among the sufferers.