Shortly after a petition sent by an enslaved man named Felix was sent to the governor of Massachusetts, another letter from Peter Bestes, Sambo Freeman, Felix Holbrook, and Chester Joie was received offering a seeming compromise of sorts for the freedom of Blacks being held in bondage in the American colonies. Unlike the previous letter, which tied abolition to religious causes, this letter attempted to focus on how slavery differed in various other parts of the world and on economic reasons for shifting away from slavery. Unlike later letters that more forcefully and directly tackled the issue of slavery, this letter still represented Blacks as subservient to whites in the colonies and sought to change only the status of bondage rather than the acquisition of complete freedom.