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Enslaved persons, chained together in a coffle, are paraded through the streets of Washington D.C. on their way to the slave market. Detail from a larger print in the Library of Congress.

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various aspects of enslavement in Pennsylvania

 

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Register of Negro Slaves and Servants Belonging to Members of the Moravian Congregation in Philadelphia in 1766

Data from William Henry Egle's Notes and Queries

Items

John Rebo, b. 1721, in Angolo, Guinea, Africa. In 1733 taken to Jamaica, W.I., and in 1737 to New York. Baptized Oct. 19, 1749, by Bishop J.C.F. Cammerhoff.

Silpa Fortune (baptized 1761, Anna Elizabeth). b. Jan. 1, 1730, in Merion township, Pa.

Tobias, b. 1721, in Ibo Nation, Africa, brought to America in 1763.

Woodridge, b. 1748, in Guinea, Africa, brought to Philadelphia in 1764.

Dinah, b. 1740, in Guinea, Africa, brought to Philadelphia in 1756.

Flora, b. 1725, in Ibo Nation, Guinea, Africa, brought to Pennsylvania in 1735.

Rose, b. 1726, in Guinea, Africa, brought here 1736.

Scipio, b. 1758 in Philadelphia.

Eliza Wilkinson, b. March 6, 1754.

Source

William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries, Annual Volume, 1896, p. 212-215.

 
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