The Pennsylvania mercury, and universal advertiser.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Contributor:

Humphreys, Daniel, 1753-1812.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

Series:

American history, 1493-1945.

Standardized Title:

Pennsylvania mercury and universal advertiser (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1784)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Newspapers.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia County (Pa.)--Newspapers.

Philadelphia County (Pa.).

Genre:

Newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 volume)

Three times a week, Jan. 1, 1788-July 19, 1791

Numb. 1 (Aug. 20, 1784)-numb. 732 (July 19, 1791)

Other Title:

Pennsylvania mercury, &c.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed ... by Daniel Humphreys ..., 1784-1791.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction Numb. 228 (29 Apr. 1788). Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2014 (American history, 1493-1945. Module 1, Settlement, commerce, revolution and reform, 1493-1859) Numb. 228 includes a letter from "A Free Negro": "I am one of that unfortunate race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by black skin and woolly hair, disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of the greatest misery, because there are men who will not be persuaded, that it is impossible for a human soul to be lodged within a sable body ..."

Special "Pennsylvania Mercury, &c. Extraordinary" issue published June 3, [1788]

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