Pennsylvania Archives

Pennsylvania Archives

Author: Samuel Hazard

Publisher:

Published: 1899

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13:

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A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.


Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Author: Christina K. Schaefer

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780806315768

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Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.


Freedom by Degrees

Freedom by Degrees

Author: Gary B. Nash

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-01-17

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 019802147X

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During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.


The Descendants of George Bigbie - Volume Two

The Descendants of George Bigbie - Volume Two

Author: Scott Bigbie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-23

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1105993256

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George Bigbie was living in North Farnham, Richmond County, Virginia as early as the 1730s. He was married twice and was the father of four children. Two of his children were Archibald Bigbie (b. 1734) who married Lydia Calvert (1748-1819) and was the father three children, and George Bigbie (1736-1778) who married Catherine and was the father of five children. Their descendants live in Virginia and other parts of the United States.


The Negro in Pennsylvania

The Negro in Pennsylvania

Author: Edward Raymond Turner

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery-Servitude-Freedom 1639-1861 [1912]