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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, 1910Turner, Edward Raymond

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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

[40] _N. Y. Col. Docs._, V, 604. As to the necessity for allowing
       so large a margin in these figures _cf._ the following. "The
       number of the whites are said to be Sixty Thousand, and of
       the Black about five Thousand." Col. Hart's Answer, etc., MS.
       Board of Trade Papers, Prop., XI, R: 7. (1720). "The number
       of People in this Province may be computed to above 40,000
       Souls amongst whom we have scarce any Blacks except a few
       Household Servants in the City of Philadelphia" ... Letter
       of Sir William Keith, _ibid._, XI, R: 42. (1722). Another
       communication gave the true state of the case, if not the
       exact numbers. "This Government has not hitherto had Occasion
       to use any methods that can furnish us with an exact Estimate,
       but as near as can at present be guessed there may be about
       _Forty five thousand_ Souls of _Whites_ and _four thousand_
       Blacks." Major Gordon's answer to Queries, _ibid._, XIII, S:
       34. (1730-1731).

  [41] William Douglass, _A Summary, Historical and Political, ...
       of the British Settlements in North-America_, etc. (ed.
       1755), II, 324; Abiel Holmes, _American Annals_, etc., II,
       187; Bancroft, _History of the United States_ (author's last
       revision), II, 391.

  [42] Letter in _Pa. Packet_, Jan 1, 1780. This made allowance
       for the numerous runaways during the British occupation of
       Philadelphia. Also _ibid._, Dec. 25, 1779; 1 _Pa. Arch._, XI,
       74, 75. For a higher estimate, 10,000, for 1780 but made in
       1795, see MS. Collection of the Records of the Pa. Society for
       the Abolition of Slavery, etc., IV, 111.

  [43] Slaves, 3,737; free, 6,537. Other enumerations occur, but are
       evidently without value. Oldmixon (1741), 3,600. _British
       Empire in America_, I, 321. Burke (1758), about 6,000. _An
       Account of the European Settlements in America_, II, 204. Abbé
       Raynal (1766), 30,000. _A Philosophical and Political History
       of the British Settlements ... in North America_ (tr. 1776),
       I, 163. A communication to the Earl of Dartmouth (1773),
       2,000. MS. Provincial Papers, Jan. 1775; 1 _Pa. Arch._, IV,
       597. Smyth (1782), over 100,000. _A Tour in the United States
       of America_, etc., II, 309.

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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

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