William Wilberforce Esqr. M.P.
"Underground" Routes to Canada: Showing the Lines of Travel of Fugitive Slaves
Autographed Letter from James Pemberton to Granville Sharp
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1788
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, James Pemberton (1723–1809) was a Quaker politician and abolitionist. In 1777, Pemberton was exiled from Pennsylvania to Virginia as a pacifist during the Revolution. This letter shows the development of James Pemberton’s anti-slavery views, with much praise for the writing by the more advanced Granville Sharp (1735–1813), and some reporting on the status of laws for the suppression of the slave trade in several American states. He later became President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection
Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
: Autographed Letter from James Pemberton to Granville Sharp
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