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In the 1770s, blacks in Boston issued a number of petitions to officials demanding their freedom. Following in this tradition of petitioning, black citizens of Ohio requested that the General Assembly of the state overturn laws that made race distinctions in this text from THE PALLADIUM OF LIBERTY, a short-lived civil rights paper founded in 1843.
FORM OF A PETITION
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Ohio.
We, the undersigned colored citizens of the county of [ ... ] and State of Ohio, do humbly petition your honorable body, to abrogare all those laws in said State, that make a distinction on account of color, and your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.
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