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Title
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No. 3. Petition from 106 White Individuals to the Local Legislature against the Repeal of the White Servants' Act -- (docket title)
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Place of Origin
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Date
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1830-04-17
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Series Heading
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M547. Antigua. Colored inhabitants.
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Geography
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Antigua
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Subject
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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
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Notes
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"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.
