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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

[34] "Aus Pennsylvanien ... fahren gen Barbadoes, Jamaica
       und Antego. Von dar bringen sie zurück ... Negros."
       Daniel Falkner, _Curieuse Nachricht von Pennsylvania in
       Norden-America_, etc., (17O2), 192. For a negro woman from
       Jamaica (1715), see MS. Court Papers, Philadelphia County,
       1619-1732. Also numerous advertisements in the newspapers.
       _Mercury_, Apr. 17, 1729, (Barbadoes); July 31, 1729,
       (Bermuda); July 23, 1730, (St. Christophers); Jan. 21, 1739,
       (Antigua). Oldmixon, speaking of Pennsylvania, says, "Negroes
       sell here ... very well; but not by the Ship Loadings, as
       they have sometimes done at Maryland and Virginia." (1741.)
       _British Empire in America_, etc., (2d ed.), I, 316. _Cf._
       however the following: "A PARCEL of likely Negro Boys and
       Girls just arrived in the Sloop Charming Sally ... to be
       sold ... for ready Money, Flour or Wheat" ... Advt. in _Pa.
       Gazette_, Sept. 4, 1740. For a consignment of seventy see MS.
       Provincial Papers, XXVII, Apr. 26, 1766.

  [35] _Cf._ MS. William Trent's Ledger, "Negroes" (1703-1708).
       Isaac Norris, Letter Book, 75, 76 (1732). For a statement of
       profit and loss on two imported negroes, see _ibid._, 77. In
       this case Isaac Norris acted as a broker, charging five per
       cent. For the wheat and flour trade with Barbadoes, see _A
       Letter from Doctor More ... Relating to the ... Province of
       Pennsilvania_, 5. (1686).

  [36] Some were probably brought from Africa by pirates. _Cf._ MS.
       Board of Trade Papers, Prop., III, 285, 286; IV, 369; V, 408.
       The hazard involved in the purchase of negroes is revealed in
       the following: "Acco^t of Negroes D^r to Tho. Willen £17: 10
       for a New Negro Man ... £15 and 50 Sh. more if he live to the
       Spring" ... MS. James Logan's Account Book, 91, (1714). As to
       the effect of cold weather upon negroes, Isaac Norris, writing
       to Jonathan Dickinson in 1703, says, ... "they're So Chilly
       they Can hardly Stir frõ the fire and Wee have Early beginning
       for a hard Wint^r." MS. Letter Book, 1702-1704, p. 109. In
       1748 Kalm says, ... "the toes and fingers of the former"
       (negroes) "are frequently frozen." _Travels_, I, 392.

  [37] _Mercury_, Sept. 26, 1723. MS. Penn Papers, Accounts
       (unbound), 27 3d mo., 1741. Also _Calendar of State Papers,
       America and West Indies, 1697-1698_, p. 390; _Col. Rec._, IV,
       515; _Pa. Mag._, XXVII, 320.

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