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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
nt The Articles, Settlement, and Offices of the Free Society of Traders, in Pennsylvania; Article XVIII. Hazard's Register, i. 395. relating to them, did but substitute, after fourteen years service, the severe condition of adscripts to the soil, for that of slaves. At a later day, he endeavored to secure to the African mental and moral culture, the rights and happiness of domestic life. His efforts were not successful, and he himself died a slave-holder. Extract of a letter from James Logan to Mrs. Hannah Penn, &c. ye 11th 3 mo. 1721.—The proprietor, in a will, left with me at his departure hence, gave all his Negroes their freedom, &c. &c. &c. On the subject of negro slavery, the German mind was least enthralled by prejudice, because Germany had never yet participated in the slave-trade. The Swedish and German colony of Gustavus Adolphus was designed to rest on free labor. If the general meeting of the Quakers for a season forbore a positive judgment, already, in 1688, th