[245] Its significance in this respect is remarked by Bowden, History of the Friends, II, 220. Connecticut and Rhode Island provided for abolition in 1784, New York in 1799, New Jersey in 1804. The same was accomplished in Massachusetts in 1780, and in New Hampshire in 1792, by construction of the constitution. Among many instances where Pennsylvania pointed to her great act with pride, cf. Acts of Assembly, 1819–20, p. 199; 4 Pa. Arch., VI, 242, 290. Albert Gallatin, writing to Charles Brown, Mar. 1, 1838, says: “It is indeed a great subject of pride ... that as one of the United States she was the first to abolish slavery” ... Writings (ed. Adams), II, 523, 524.
[246] 1 Dallas 469; 14 Sergeant and Rawle 443–446; 1 Pa. Arch., VIII, 720.
[247] Pa. Mag., XV, 372, 373. The selling-price elsewhere was greater since it included the price of the posterity.
[248] Brissot de Warville, Mémoire sur les Noirs de l’Amérique Septentrionale, 19.
[249] Minutes of Assembly, 1787–1788, pp. 104, 134, 135, 137, 159, 164, 177, 197; Packet, Mar. 13, 1788; Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, 144.
[250] Laws of Pennsylvania (Carey and Bioren), III, 268–272. Despite this many negroes continued to be sold out of the state, and in 1795 the Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl. was asking for a more stringent law. Cf. MS. Rec. of Soc., IV, 191. Also MS. Supreme Court Papers, nos. 3, 4, (1795). As late as 1796 the author of the Reise von Hamburg nach Philadelphia says: “Häufig kommen, in Philadelphia vorzüglich ... grosze Transporte von Sclaven von Africa vorüber,” p. 24.
[251] 1 Dallas 491, 492; 2 Dallas 224–228; 3 Sergeant and Rawle 396–402; 2 Yeates 234, 449; 3 id. 259–261; 4 id. 115, 116; 6 Binney 206–211; MS. Sup. Ct. Papers, I, 1; MS. Rec. Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl., I, 197.
[252] 2 Rawle, 204–206; 1 Penrose and Watts 93. Cf. Min. of Assembly, 1785–1786, pp. 168, 169.
[253] 14 Sergeant and Rawle 442; Brissot, Mémoire, 20.
[254] Brissot, Mémoire, 21. Cf. the severe censure in Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars (1866), 23.