[246] 1 Dallas 469; 14 Sergeant and Rawle 443-446; 1 _Pa. Arch._, VIII, 720.
[247] _Pa. Mag._, XV, 372, 373. The selling-price elsewhere was greater since it included the price of the posterity.
[248] Brissot de Warville, _Mémoire sur les Noirs de l'Amérique Septentrionale_, 19.
[249] _Minutes of Assembly, 1787-1788_, pp. 104, 134, 135, 137, 159, 164, 177, 197; _Packet_, Mar. 13, 1788; _Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer_, 144.
[250] _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (Carey and Bioren), III, 268-272. Despite this many negroes continued to be sold out of the state, and in 1795 the Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl. was asking for a more stringent law. _Cf._ MS. Rec. of Soc., IV, 191. Also MS. Supreme Court Papers, nos. 3, 4, (1795). As late as 1796 the author of the _Reise von Hamburg nach Philadelphia_ says: "Häufig kommen, in Philadelphia vorzüglich ... grosze Transporte von Sclaven von Africa vorüber," p. 24.
[251] 1 Dallas 491, 492; 2 Dallas 224-228; 3 Sergeant and Rawle 396-402; 2 Yeates 234, 449; 3 _id._ 259-261; 4 _id._ 115, 116; 6 Binney 206-211; MS. Sup. Ct. Papers, I, 1; MS. Rec. Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl., I, 197.
[252] 2 Rawle, 204-206; 1 Penrose and Watts 93. _Cf. Min. of Assembly, 1785-1786_, pp. 168, 169.
[253] 14 Sergeant and Rawle 442; Brissot, _Mémoire_, 20.
[254] Brissot, _Mémoire_, 21. _Cf._ the severe censure in _Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars_ (1866), 23.
[256] _Journal of the House, 1792-1793_, pp. 39, 55.
[257] MS. Docket Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, XXVII, 379. The suit was on a writ "de homine replegiando." _Cf._ Stroud, _Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America_ (2d ed.), 227 (note); MS. Docket of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, 1780-1808, p. 126; _Pa. Gazette_, Feb. 3, 1802; Report of Pa. Soc. Abol. Sl. in _Minutes Sixth Convention Abol. Soc., Phila., 1800_, p. 7. It was the different decision of an exactly similar question that abolished slavery in Massachusetts. _Cf._ Littleton _v._ Tuttle, 4 Massachusetts 128.
[258] _Journal of Senate, 1792-1793_, pp. 150, 151; _1798-1799_, p. 149; _J. of H., 1799-1800_, pp. 76, 123, 153, 160, 172, 190; _J. of S., 1799-1800_, p. 223; _J. of S., 1800-1801_, pp. 134, 135; _J. of H., 1802-1803_, p. 218; _J. of H., 1811-1812_, pp. 24, 216; 4 _Pa. Arch._, IV, 757, for Governor Snyder's message.