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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Political Grade of the Free Coloured Population, Under the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Pennsylvania: In Three Parts
Dangers connected with the increase of the coloured population were early discerned in many of the American colonies; and on that account, as well as from humane feeling, numeioiis laws were passed against the traffic in Slaves A law was passed in Pennsylvania, in 1712, ex pres'sly based upon the dangers of insurrection and murder' yrom a ne gro popula: ion, and the Petition to the throne piese nted by the house of Burgesses of Virginia in 1772, respecting the traffic, is replete with this sense ofdanger we present the following extract from it: The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered a trade of great inhumanity, and, under its pre sent encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your Majesty' 3 American dominions.
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