1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph opening your obliging letter in

opening your obliging letter in a hurry

presumably for the 1874 revivals in London

Gough traveled there in 1856

and even for evermore

1785 QUAKER BIRACIAL MANUMISSION. Superb Document Illustrating Increasing Abolitionist Tendencies of Late 18th Century. Autograph opening your obliging letter inA superb physical artifact. The front records the original indenture, dated 1764, for a then 2 or 3 year old mixed race child, young Hannah Ore. She was apparently the child of a white mother and black father. The indenture binds her to the Newlin family for a period of 29 years. While chattel slavery was illegal in Pennsylvania, many achieved the same result through indenture of the very young, as the case here. The Newlin family lived in Chester