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James Poovey.
Slavery having been abolished by a gradual process in Pennsylvania, there were many individuals who still remained in bondage at the period of which I write.
Among them was James Poovey, slave to a blacksmith in Pennsylvania.
He had learned his master's trade, and being an athletic man, was very valuable.
During several winters, he attended an evening school for the free instruction of colored people.
He made very slow progress in learning, but by means of unremitting induPennsylvania.
He had learned his master's trade, and being an athletic man, was very valuable.
During several winters, he attended an evening school for the free instruction of colored people.
He made very slow progress in learning, but by means of unremitting industry and application, he was at last able to accomplish the desire of his heart, which was to read the New Testament for himself.
The fact that colored men born a few years later than himself were free, by the act of gradual emancipation, while he was compelled to remain in bondage, had long been a source of uneasiness; and increase of knowledge by no means increased his contentment.
Having come to the conclusion that slavery was utterly unjust, he resolved not to submit to it any longer.
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The New-Jersey slave.
In the year 1809, a gentleman from East New-Jersey visited Philadelphia, and brought a young slave to wait upon him. When they had been in that city four or five months, the lad called upon Isaac T. Hopper to inquire whether his residence in Philadelphia had made him free.
He was informed that he would not have a legal claim to freedom till he had been there six months. Just as the term expired, somebody told the master that the laws of Pennsylvania conferred freedom on slaves under such circumstances.
He had been ignorant of the fact, or had forgotten it, and as soon as he received the information he became alarmed lest he should lose his locomotive property.
He sent for a constable, who came to his door with a carriage.
The lad had just come up from the cellar with an armful of wood.
When he entered the parlor, the constable ordered him to put it down and go with him. He threw the wood directly at the legs of the officer, and ran down cellar full speed
Marry Morris.
A woman, who was born too early to derive benefit from the gradual emancipation law of Pennsylvania, escaped from bondage in Lancaster County to Philadelphia.
There she married a free colored man by the name of Abraham Morris.
They lived together very comfortably for several years, and seemed to enjoy life as much as many of their more wealthy neighbors.
But in the year 1810, it unfortunately happened that Mary's master ascertained where she lived, and sent a man to arrest her, with directions either to sell her, or bring her back to him.
Abraham Morris was a very intelligent, industrious man, and had laid up some money.
He offered one hundred and fifty dollars of his earnings to purchase the freedom of his wife.
The sum was accepted, and the parties applied to Daniel Bussier, a magistrate in the District of Southwark, to draw up a deed of manumission.
The money was paid, and the deed given; but the agent employed to sell the woman absconded with the money.
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, Stop thief! (search)