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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 5 1 Browse Search
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, 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 neittle handful of German Friends from the highlands above the Rhine, came to the resolution that it was not lawful for Christians to buy or to keep negro slaves. Penn's Works, II. 439. Bettle m Memoirs of Penn. Hist. Soc. i. 366. This decision of the German emigrants on negro slavery, was taken during the lifetime of GeorgPenn. Hist. Soc. i. 366. This decision of the German emigrants on negro slavery, was taken during the lifetime of George Fox, who recognized no distinction of race. Let your light shine among the Indians, the blacks, and the whites, was his message to Quakers on the Dela- Chap. XVI.} ware. His heart was with the settlements of which he had been the pioneer; and, a few weeks before his death, he exhorted Friends in America to be the light of th