- Author
- Oblinger, Carl D.
- Date of Publication
- 1968.
County, as in the rest of south-
eastern Pennsylvania, the majority of the slaveholders were of Scotch-Irish or
English descent and only a few were German and Quaker.
Many slave owners in Pennsylvania, especially the Quakers, began to monu-
mit their slaves after 1750. In 1754, the yearly meeting of the