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Colored Conventions

Bringing Nineteenth-Century Black Organizing to Digital Life

State House and Senate Journals

an old newspaper with the heading "General Orders of the Day"

Researchers can follow actions related to petitions after they are sent from Colored Convention delegates to state legislatures.

State journals may provide information. If digitized, these journals are freely available on the web in digital collections such as the HathiTrust Digital Library and LLMC Digital.