There could be an apology for slavery in Delaware.
Governor Jack Markell received a request for such a proclamation last week from Harmon Carey, founder and executive director of the Afro-American Historical Society in Wilmington.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that he wrote that there was a “moral imperative”0 to acknowledge the inhumanity of slavery and the unjust prosecution of Abolitionists.
Carey says he believes an apology would heal the wounds still being felt to this day.
Back in January there was another effort to obtain a pardon for three Delaware residents who were convicted for helping to free slaves.