AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous

893,041 1810 186,446 1,191,364 1820 .233,524 1,538,083 1830 .319,599 2,009,043 1840 .386,303 2,487,455 1850 434,449 3,204,313 1860 487,970 3,953,760 Pennsylvania's part for and against slavery began before 1700. Under the Duke of York's laws, which extended into Pennsylvania about 1676, no sla- very was

LANCASTER COUNTY'S RELATION TO SLAVERY, PARTICULAR PHASES OFSLAVERY IN LANCASTER COUNTY. The following interesting contribu- tion to the history of slavery in this county was read before the Lancaster County Historical Society by Miss Martha B. Clark: Contracts for and Commercial Trans- actions in

harmony with the early efforts to abolish slavery in this country, among the foremost of which was the Act of Pennsylvania of 1780, our county took advanced ground on the question. The early county Quakers, German Mennonites and others felt the insti- tution wrong from the beginning, and had practically

eight or nine inches high, about 25 years old, rather of a sulky disposition. Their clothing cannot be described, as James was in possession of different suits, and it is probable he may fur- nish the other with a change. It is expected they will endeavor to get into the State of Pennsylvania. I will