<petition><petition_analysis_number>10384910</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10384910</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county></county><file_year>1849</file_year><filing_court>Archives</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>10</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>"Your petitioners, votable citizens of the state of Delaware, respectfully ask that you will enact such laws, as in your wisdom, may be deemed necessary for the immediate abolition of slavery in Delaware, with the least possible injury to vested rights."</abstract><subjects><subject>Abolition</subject><subject>Manumission</subject></subjects></petition>