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Collection Reference Number GLC09151
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1788 
Title The Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser
Date 29 April 1788
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Letter from "A Free Negro" printed in the Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser. "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..." Issue also includes one of John Dickinson's "Letters of Fabius" supporting the Federal Constitution.
Subjects US Constitution  Government and Civics  Freemen  African American History  
Theme Government & Politics; African Americans
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859