slavery in pennsylvania
York County miscellaneous
slave data
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enslavement data
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Names: Caesar ("Negro Caesar")
Date of item: May 1784
Location: York
Item: Court case-- unlawful imprisonment
Details/Text: "York --May 1784
Negroe Ceasar complains of being unlawfully confined as a Slave tho he is a freeman."
Notes:
Source: Records of the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court, page 269.
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Names: Harry ("Negro Harry")
Date of item: 12 April 1787 Location: York
Item: Escaped prisoner Details/Text: "BROKE
out of York Goal on the eighth inst., April, the following
persons to wit... Negro Harry, about 5 feet 9 inches high, had on a light cloth
coat,
old breeches, blue stockings, and coarse shirt, sharp nose. "
Notes:
Four dollars reward was offered for Harry's capture. Source:
Carlisle Gazette, 12 April 1787
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