The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery--servitude--freedom, 1639-1861American historical association, 1912 - 314 strani The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery-Servitude-Freedom 1639-1861 [1912] |
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Stran 181 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Stran 172 - That every Inhabitant in the said province, that is or shall be a purchaser of one hundred acres of land or upwards, his heirs and assigns, and every person who shall have paid his passage, and taken up one hundred acres of land, at one penny an acre, and have cultivated ten acres thereof, and every person that hath been a servant or bondsman, and is free by his service, that shall have taken up his fifty acres of land, and cultivated twenty thereof...
Stran 67 - ... that Friends be careful not to encourage the bringing in of any more negroes; and that such that have negroes, be careful of them, bring them to meetings, have meetings with them in their families, and restrain them from loose and lewd living as much as in them lies, and from rambling abroad on First-days or other times.
Stran 215 - ... devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people ; that you will promote mercy and justice towards this distressed race, and that you will step to the very verge of the power vested in you for discouraging every species of traffic in the persons of our fellow-men.
Stran 262 - The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race," incorporated by Act of Assembly passed the 8th day of December, AD 1789, of which Dr.
Stran 249 - In these the Chief Justice does not directly assert, but plainly assumes, as a fact, that the public estimate of the black man is more favorable now than it was in the days of the Revolution.
Stran 172 - Grievances; and shall have all other Powers and Privileges of an Assembly, according to the Rights of the free-born Subjects of England, and as is usual in any of the King's Plantations in America.
Stran 110 - ... an inhabitant or inhabitants there : and in such case, if the person or persons shall not return to the place aforesaid, when his or their work is finished, or shall fall sick or impotent whilst he or they are in the said work, it shall not be accounted a settlement in the cases abovesaid, but...
Stran 173 - Every man of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year...
Stran 170 - In elections by the citizens, every freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state two years next before the election, and within that time paid a state or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector...
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The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860 Stanley W. Campbell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1970 |
They who Would be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 Jane H. Pease,William H. Pease Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1974 |