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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) QUAKERS. A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour of the City and Districts of Philadelphia. 44 pages. 8vo, rebound in modern marbled paper-covered boards with morocco spine label; a couple of small numbers and de-accession stamp of the Franklin Institute on verso of the title-page, some discoloration to same, a couple of small stains in text. Philadelphia: Kite & Walton, 1849
scarce first edition of the second of four such studies of the free black population of Philadelphia, the present one undertaken by the Quakers. The first, compiled by Benjamin Bacon and Charles Gardner appeared in 1838 and was based on Bacon and Gardner's census collected for the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Library Company of Philadelphia, Negro History, 1553-1903, #158, Sabin, 62289.
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