1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph with losses and damage as

with losses and damage as shown

There is also a postscript which went unpublished in the below imprint

Gough traveled there in 1856

including George Wishart

"An Address to His Honor the Deputy Governor

1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph with losses and damage asA superb physical artifact. The front records the original indenture, dated 1764, for a then 2 or 3 year old mixed race child, young Hannah Ore. She was apparently the child of a white mother and black father. The indenture binds her to the Newlin family for a period of 29 years. While chattel slavery was illegal in Pennsylvania, many achieved the same result through indenture of the very young, as the case here. The Newlin family lived in Chester