Lot 125
1777 Quaker Slave Manumission. Partly-printed slave manumission signed by John Brown of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, "this seventh day of the Eleventh Month," 1777. One page oblong octavo. Brown promises to "set free from bondage, my Negroe Boy named James when he shall arrive at the age of twenty one years which will be on the first day of the tenth month, anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred & ninty [sic]…." Witnessed by James Moon and William Blakey and docketed on verso, "… Recorded in quarterly Meeting Book page 16th," which denotes this as a Quaker document, as does the date. The Quakers were the first religious group to declare en masse that slavery was wrong. A 1½ in. strip of paper for mounting is affixed on verso of left margin. Normal aged toning, else Fine.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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