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Know all men by these presents, that in consideration of.

Printed certificate for conveying property to the Quakers, with entry spaces not filled in. Document formerly was adhered to back of a Penn broadside.

GLC00246.07

Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slavetrade.

Message to Congress emphasizing the "horror and brutality of the middle passage." The memorial states that the trade is being "prosecuted to a greater extent, and in a manner more destructive to its victims, than it ever was before." 26 Congress...

GLC00267.036