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Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 — John Shaqi

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Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910

Name: Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910
Author: Turner, Edward Raymond

Turner, Edward Raymond

African Americans -- Pennsylvania; Slavery -- Pennsylvania

[22] Smith, _History of Delaware County_, 261; Peter Kalm, _Travels
       into North America_, etc., (1748), I, 391.

  [23] _Col. Rec._, VII, 37, 38.

  [24] _Stat. at L._, VI, 104-110; _Votes and Proceedings_, 1761,
       pp. 25, 29, 33, 38, 39, 40, 41, 52, 55, 63; _Col. Rec._,
       VIII, 575, 576. "The Petition of Divers Merchants of the City
       of Philadelphia, To The Honble James Hamilton Esqr. Lieut.
       Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, Humbly Sheweth, That
       We the Subscribers ... have seen for some time past, the many
       inconveniencys the Inhabitants have suffer'd, for want of
       Labourers, and Artificers, by Numbers being Inlisted for His
       Majestys Service and near a total stop to the importation of
       German and other white Servants, have for some time encouraged
       the importation of Negros, ... that an advantage may be
       gain'd by the Introduction of Slaves, w^ch will likewise be
       a means of reduceing the exorbitant Price of Labour, and in
       all Probability bring our staple Commoditys to their usual
       Prices." MS. Provincial Papers, XXV, March 1, 1761.

  [25] _Stat. at L._, VII, 158, 159; VIII, 330-332; _Col. Rec._, IX,
       400, 401, 443, ff.; X, 72, 77. The Board of Trade Journals,
       LXXXII, 47, (May 5, 1774), say that their lordships had
       some discourse with Dr. Franklin "upon the objections ...
       to ... _imposing Duties amounting to a prohibition upon the
       Importation of Negroes_."

  [26] _Cf._ MS. Provincial Papers, XXXII, January, 1775.

  [27] _Stat. at L._, X, 72, 73. It was forbidden by implication
       rather than specific regulation. It had been foreseen that an
       act for gradual abolition entailed stopping the importation of
       negroes. _Pa. Packet_, Nov. 28, 1778; _1 Pa. Arch._, VII, 79.

  [28] Professor E. P. Cheyney in an article written some years ago
       ("The Condition of Labor in Early Pennsylvania, I. Slavery,"
       in _The Manufacturer_, Feb. 2, 1891, p. 8) considers
       these laws to have been restrictive in purpose, and gives
       three causes for their passage, in the following order of
       importance: (a) dread of slave insurrections, (b) opposition
       of the free laboring classes to slave competition, (c)
       conscientious objections. I cannot think that this is correct.
       (a) seems to have been the impelling motive only in connection
       with the law of 1712, and seems rarely to have been thought
       of. It was urged in 1740, 1741, and 1742, when efforts were
       being made to pass a militia law in Pennsylvania, but it
       attracted little attention. _Cf._ MS. Board of Trade Papers,
       Prop., XV, T: 54, 57, 60.

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