Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forten, James, 1766-1842

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 28931.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Act to prevent the migration of people of color.

Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Pennsylvania.

African Americans.

Emigration and immigration.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

Pennsylvania--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

11 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Pennsylvania] : [publisher not identified], [1813]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Five letters "suggested by the promulgation of a late bill, before the Senate of Pennsylvania, to prevent the emigration of people of colour into this state." An act to prevent the migration of people of color was reported in the House of Representatives on March 20, 1813. It is not indexed in the Senate journals but is tagged in the index to the House journals as unfinished business.

Caption title.

Each letter is signed "A man of colour" [i.e., James Forten]; the first is dated April 1813.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 28931).

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