1788
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 516 words.
The yearly meeting regularly sent memorials to the General Assembly seeking a change in the law of manumission that would protect the slaves they set free from re-enslavement. The version of these...
1788
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 692 words.
Despite the frustration that North Carolina Friends experienced when liberated slaves were re-enslaved, they continued to free slaves. In response, in 1788 North Carolina's legislature strengthened...
1797
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 726 words.
In January 1797, Thomas Jordan, clerk of the Standing Committee of the Eastern Quarter of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting, sent a printed copy of a bill that had been proposed in the North Carolina...
1797
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 2079 words.
In 1797, the confrontation between the Quakers of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina came to debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as the result of two petitions. The...
1797
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 3490 words.
On 30 January 1797, Pennsylvania congressman John Swanwick presented the freemen's petition to the House of Representatives. His introducing of this petition was in character with his patronage of...
1797
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 1141 words.
The Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting held in September 1797 presented to Congress a memorial touching on the situation in North Carolina. The memorial recalls the Continental Association that was adopted...
1797–1798
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 8384 words.
On 29 November 1797, when “The Memorial and Address of the People Called Quakers” was laid before the Senate of the United States, it was read and immediately ordered to lie on the table. The...
1798
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 251 words.
The chapter presents the minutes of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting for Sufferings held on 16 February 1798. The minutes said that the memorial “issued in a Conclusion of the United States...
1801–1804
in In the Wake of the Great Rebellion
August 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 4299 words.
This chapter describes the movement during 1801–1804. Despite the lull in active resistance brought about by the cessation of hostilities between Britain and France in 1802 much of Ulster continued...
1802–1835
in Lessons in Likeness
October 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 16468 words.
This chapter starts by presenting the reports of early artists and itinerant activity. John James Audubon observed wildlife and painted portraits in Kentucky. He was a naturalist artist and first...