In this letter, dated June 6, 1791, Robert Pleasants asks James Madison, then serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, to share a petition against the international slave trade from the Virginia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, which Pleasants founded. He also asks for Madison’s opinion on submitting a petition to the General Assembly for a law to emancipate children born into slavery after the law’s passage.
In this letter, dated June 6, 1791, Robert Pleasants asks James Madison, then serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, to share a petition against the international slave trade from the Virginia Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, which Pleasants founded. He also asks for Madison’s opinion on submitting a petition to the General Assembly for a law to emancipate children born into slavery after the law’s passage.
In this letter to Thomas Jefferson, dated June 1, 1796, Robert Pleasants asks Jefferson to consider his proposal for educating black children.
In this letter to Thomas Jefferson, dated February 8, 1797, Robert Pleasants expresses concern that the Act to Establish Public Schools, passed by the General Assembly in 1796, excludes enslaved children.
