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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

[104] "An Act for preventing Accidents that may happen by Fire,"
       sect. IV, _Stat. at L._, III, 254 (1721); "An Act to prevent
       the Damages, which may happen, by firing of Woods," etc.,
       sect. III, _ibid._, IV, 282 (1735); "An Act for the trial
       of Negroes," sect. V, _ibid._, II, 79 (1700); "An Act for
       the more effectual preventing Accidents which may happen by
       Fire, and for suppressing Idleness, Drunkenness, and other
       Debaucheries," sect. III, _ibid._, V, 109, 110 (1750-1751);
       "An Act to prevent the Hunting of Deer," etc., sect. VII,
       _ibid._, VI, 49 (1760); "An Act for the better regulating the
       nightly Watch within the city of Philadelphia," etc., sect.
       XXII, _ibid._, V, 126 (1750-1751); repeated in 1756, 1763,
       1766, 1771, _ibid._, V, 241; VI, 309; VII, 7; VIII, 115; "An
       Act for regulating Wagoners, Carters, Draymen, and Porters,"
       etc., sect. VII, _ibid._, VI, 68 (1761); repeated in 1763 and
       1770, _ibid._ VI, 250; VII, 359, 360.

 [105] _Cf._ the story of Hodge's Cato, told in Watson, _Annals of
       Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the Olden Time_, etc., II,
       263.

 [106] _Cf._ Achenwall, who got his information from Franklin,
       _Anmerkungen_, 25: "Diese Mohrensclaven geniessen als
       Unterthanen des Staats ... den Schutz der Gesetze, so
       gut als freye Einwohner. Wenn ein Colonist, auch selbst
       der Eigenthumsherr, einen Schwarzen umbringt, so wird er
       gleichfalls zum Tode verurtheilt. Wenn der Herr seinem Sclaven
       zu harte Arbeit auflegt, oder ihn sonst übel behandelt, so kan
       er ihn beym Richter verklagen." Also Kalm, _Travels_, I, 390.

 [107] "Yesterday at a Supream Court held in this City, sentence of
       Death was passed upon William Bullock, who was ... Convicted
       of the Murder of his Negro Slave." _American Weekly Mercury_,
       Apr. 29, 1742.

 [108] Kalm (1748) said that there was no record of such a sentence
       being carried out; but he adds that a case having arisen, even
       the magistrates secretly advised the guilty person to leave
       the country, "as otherwise they could not avoid taking him
       prisoner, and then he would be condemned to die according to
       the laws of the country, without any hopes of saving him".
       _Travels_, I, 391, 392. For a case _cf. Pa. Gazette_, Feb.
       24, 1741-1742.




CHAPTER III.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF SLAVERY.

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