1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph "An Address to His Honor

"An Address to His Honor the Deputy Governor

with losses and damage as shown

and even for evermore

Gough traveled there in 1856

opening your obliging letter in a hurry

1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph "An Address to His HonorA 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