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Title: Hill, Nathaniel, fl. 1830. /Copy/Nathl. Hill Antigua April 17th. 1830 (docket title)
Place of Origin: Antigua and Barbuda
Date: 1830-04-17
Series Heading: M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
Geography: Antigua
Subject: Great Britain. Parliament -- History -- 19th century, Petitions -- Antigua and Barbadu -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Lushington, Stephen, 1782-1873 -- Correspondence, Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence, Social reformers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Correspondence, Political activists, Colonial influence, Lobbying -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Lobbyists, Social pressure, Document delivery, Letter carriers -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, West Indies -- History
Notes: Hill, Nathaniel, fl. 1830."To Robert Stokes Esqr. My Dear Sir I had the pleasure to address you... apprizing you that the Petition from the Coloured Inhabitants... would be shortly forwarded... I now transmit the same to you, with a request from the Petitioners, that you would on their behalf hand the Petition to that friend of the oppressed, Dr. Lushington, with their best acknowledgments for his kind promise this year of presenting the same in the House of Commons... the Petition... will be handed you by Mr. Joseph Phillips, a native of England... acquainted... with every particular connected with the West India system, and has himself been much persecuted and oppressed, having married a lady of colour...""Explanation to be referred to in elucidation of the... Petition," p. [2]., Original digital object name: bei-m547c, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: No. 3. Petition from 106 White Individuals to the Local Legislature against the Repeal of the White Servants' Act -- (docket title)
Place of Origin: Antigua and Barbuda
Date: 1830-04-17
Series Heading: M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
Geography: Antigua
Subject: Affirmative action programs -- Antigua and Barbuda -- History -- 19th century, Whites -- Antigua amd Barbuda -- History -- 19th century, Opposition (Political science) -- Antigua and Barbuda -- History -- 19th century, Petitions -- Antigua and Barbadu -- Antigua, Repeal of legislation, West Indies -- History
Notes: "Antigua To the Honorable Samuel Athill President and the Gentlemen of the Honorable Board of Council The Petition of The Undersigned for themselves and others Humbly Sheweth That Your Petitioners have heard that a Petition has been presented to your Honorable Board praying that Coloured Persons, may be placed on the same footing, as White Persons, by being permitted to answer, in the Public to save the deficiency Tax in order that they may be enabled thereby to get employed in the Country as Managers and Overseers..."; opposing the Petition of the Coloured Inhabitants.See Oliver, History of Antigua I:cli-cliii, where these mss. are printed. See also Ragatz, p. 521, for Henry Loving's Correspondence with the Right Hon. Viscount Goderick, London, 1832. "Loving had been sent to Great Britain by the free colored and black inhabitants of the colony for the purpose of carrying on a campaign to secure the removal of civil disabilities under which they were laboring.", Original digital object name: bei-m547d, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: No. 5. The manner in which Iuries are impannelled. (docket title)
Place of Origin: Antigua and Barbuda
Date: 1830-04-17
Series Heading: M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
Geography: Antigua
Subject: Jurors, Jury duty -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Petition of right, Civil rights -- Antigua and Barbadu -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Discrimination against racially mixed people, West Indies -- History
Notes: "The exclusion of Coloured Persons from serving as Jurors, may be regarded as their most prominent grievance... cherished by the Whites more tenaciously... As a proof that... neither moral nor intellectual unfitness... prevents their enjoyment of these Constitutional Rights, it might not be irrelevant to observe that the more weighty and complicated duties of almost all the Public Offices and Departments in the Island are performed by Colored Men..."Support for The Petition, of the Coloured Inhabitants, of the Island of Antigua., Original digital object name: bei-m547b, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Title: The Petition, of the Coloured Inhabitants, of the Island of Antigua. (ms. title-page)
Place of Origin: Antigua and Barbuda
Date: 1830-04-17
Series Heading: M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
Geography: Antigua
Subject: Petition of right, Grievance procedures, Race discrimination, Discrimmination in employment -- Antigua amd Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Racially mixed people -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Blacks -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Carib Indians -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- Influence, Courts -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 19th century, West Indies -- History
Notes: The Petition, of the Coloured Inhabitants, of the Island of Antigua. (ms. title-page)"Antigua -- To The Honorable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. -- The Humble Petition of the Undersigned for themselves and on behalf of the other Free Inhabitants not being Whites, Sheweth, That Your Petitioners... pray for a redress... Your Petitioners have presented several petitions to the local Legislature... Your Petitioners despairing of... change... are impelled to lay their grievances before Your Honorable House... Your Petitioners... are prevented from being employed on Plantations as Overseers or Managers... are not eligible to hold Commissions in the Militia... nor to serve as Grand Jurors, Petit Jurors, or even on Coroners' Inquests... excluded from Parochial Aid..."Signed with 316 names., Original digital object name: bei-m547a, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

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