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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

[118] Kalm, _Travels_, I, 394. For treatment of negroes in the
       West Indies, _cf._ Sandiford, _The Mystery of Iniquity_, 99
       (1730); Benezet, _A Short Account of that Part of Africa
       Inhabited by the Negroes_ (1762), 55, 56, note; Benezet,
       _A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies
       in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the
       Enslaved Negroes_ (1766), 5-9; Benezet, _Some Historical
       Account of Guinea_ (1771), chap. VIII. For treatment in
       the South, _cf._ Whitefield, _Three Letters_ (1740), 13,
       71; Chastellux, _Voyage en Amérique_ (1786), 130. For
       treatment in Pennsylvania _cf._ Kalm, _Travels_, I, 394; St.
       John Crèvecoeur, _Letters_, 221. Acrelius says that the
       negroes at the iron-furnaces were allowed to stop work for
       "four months in summer, when the heat is most oppressive."
       _Description_, 168.

 [119] _Mercury, Gazette_, and _Pa. Packet_, _passim_. Most of the
       taverns seem to have had negro servants. _Cf._ MS. Assessment
       Book, Chester Co., 1769, p. 146; of Bucks Co., 1779, p. 84.

 [120] _Mercury_, Mar. 3. 1723-1724; Dec. 15, 1724; July 4, 1728;
       Aug. 24, 1732; _Gazette_, Feb. 7, 1740; Dec. 3, 1741; May 20,
       1742; Nov. 1, 1744; July 9, Dec. 3, 1761; _Packet_, July 5,
       1733.

 [121] "The laborers are generally composed partly of negroes
       (slaves) partly of servants from Germany or Ireland" ...
       Acrelius, _Description_, 168. _Cf._ Gabriel Thomas, _An
       Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and
       Country of Pensilvania_ (1698), etc., 28.

 [122] _Mercury_, Jan. 16, 1727-1728; July 25, 1728; Nov. 7,
       1728. _Gazette_, July 17, 1740; Mar. 31, 1743. "A compleat
       washerwoman" is advertised in the _Gazette_, Oct. 1, 1761;
       also "an extraordinary washer of clothes," _Gazette_, Apr. 12,
       1775; Penn-Physick, MSS IV, 203 (1740).

 [123] _Gazette_, May 19, 1743; July 11, 1745; Nov. 5, 1761; May 15,
       1776; Dec. 15, 1779. _Cf._ notices in William Penn's Cash
       Book (MS.), 3, 6, 9, 15, 18; John Wilson's Cash Book (MS.),
       Feb. 23, 1776; MS. Phila. Account Book, 38 (1694); MS. Logan
       Papers, II, 259 (1707); Richard Hayes's Ledger (MS.), 88
       (1716).

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