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
[248] Brissot de Warville, _Mémoire sur les Noirs de l'Amérique
Septentrionale_, 19.
[249] _Minutes of Assembly, 1787-1788_, pp. 104, 134, 135, 137,
159, 164, 177, 197; _Packet_, Mar. 13, 1788; _Diary of Jacob
Hiltzheimer_, 144.
[250] _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (Carey and Bioren), III, 268-272.
Despite this many negroes continued to be sold out of the
state, and in 1795 the Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl. was asking for a
more stringent law. _Cf._ MS. Rec. of Soc., IV, 191. Also
MS. Supreme Court Papers, nos. 3, 4, (1795). As late as 1796
the author of the _Reise von Hamburg nach Philadelphia_
says: "Häufig kommen, in Philadelphia vorzüglich ... grosze
Transporte von Sclaven von Africa vorüber," p. 24.
[251] 1 Dallas 491, 492; 2 Dallas 224-228; 3 Sergeant and Rawle
396-402; 2 Yeates 234, 449; 3 _id._ 259-261; 4 _id._ 115, 116;
6 Binney 206-211; MS. Sup. Ct. Papers, I, 1; MS. Rec. Pa. Soc.
Abol. Sl., I, 197.
[252] 2 Rawle, 204-206; 1 Penrose and Watts 93. _Cf. Min. of
Assembly, 1785-1786_, pp. 168, 169.
[253] 14 Sergeant and Rawle 442; Brissot, _Mémoire_, 20.
[254] Brissot, _Mémoire_, 21. _Cf._ the severe censure in _Why
Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street
Cars_ (1866), 23.
[255] Art. IX, sect. 1.
[256] _Journal of the House, 1792-1793_, pp. 39, 55.
[257] MS. Docket Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, XXVII, 379. The suit
was on a writ "de homine replegiando." _Cf._ Stroud, _Sketch
of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the
United States of America_ (2d ed.), 227 (note); MS. Docket
of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, 1780-1808, p. 126;
_Pa. Gazette_, Feb. 3, 1802; Report of Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl. in
_Minutes Sixth Convention Abol. Soc., Phila., 1800_, p. 7.
It was the different decision of an exactly similar question
that abolished slavery in Massachusetts. _Cf._ Littleton _v._
Tuttle, 4 Massachusetts 128.
[258] _Journal of Senate, 1792-1793_, pp. 150, 151; _1798-1799_, p.
149; _J. of H., 1799-1800_, pp. 76, 123, 153, 160, 172, 190;
_J. of S., 1799-1800_, p. 223; _J. of S., 1800-1801_, pp. 134,
135; _J. of H., 1802-1803_, p. 218; _J. of H., 1811-1812_, pp.
24, 216; 4 _Pa. Arch._, IV, 757, for Governor Snyder's message.
[259] _J. of H., 1796-1797_, pp. 283, 308, 354, 355; _J. of H.,
1797-1798_, pp. 75, 269; _J. of H., 1798-1799_, pp. 20, 354;
_J. of H., 1799-1800_, pp. 23, 76, 93, 123, 153, 160, 162,
172, 176, 190, 236, 303, 304, 306, 309, 310, 313, 314, 330,
358, 376; _J. of S., 1799-1800_, pp. 144, 223, 235. The bill
passed the House 54 to 15. _J. of S., 1800-1801_, p. 175; _J.
of S., 1801-1802_, p. 24.
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