Afrolumens Project  home pageslavery
to
freedom
   
 
 

County Index

Educational Articles

How to Use This Site

PA Enslavement FAQs

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.

A series of pages exploring
various aspects of enslavement in Pennsylvania

Race, Bondage, Women and Children

Jane Plumb is Imprisoned with Her Mulatto Child

Imprisoned as a Suspected Runaway Servant

News item from The Pennsylvania Journal or Weekly Advertiser, Philadelphia, May 1782

1782 newspaper notice that Jane Plumb is imprisoned in the Philadelphia Workhouse along with her Mulatto child.
TAKEN up and delivered to the Work-House of this city, as runaways, a WOMAN about 37 years of age, calls herself Jane Plumb, with a Mulatto child, about four years old, named John; she says she belongs to New-York, and was attempting to go from York, in Virginia, to New-York. A Negro MAN, calls himself John Philips, about 25 years old, 5 feet 3 inches high, stutters in his speech, full faced, well made, has on an old blue coat, brown jacket, tow trowsers, old shoes, says he belongs to James Wynn, of South-Carolina, near Chinkapin river, and was taken away by the British about a year ago, taken to York in Virginia, and from thence came to Philadelphia in December last. -- The owner or owners of the above Negroes are desired to call, pay their expences, and take them away, or they will be sold for the same.
CLEMENT SMITH, K.W.
Philadelphia, May 21, 1782.

Source: The Pennsylvania Journal or Weekly Advertiser, 15 June 1782.

 


Enslavement, Inter-racial Relationships and Gender Roles

 

About the AP | Contact AP | Mission Statement | Archives