of Mary- land, for divers good causes and con- siderations, me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted, and set free from and after the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five my male slave named Giles Wallis, aged four

The General Position of Lan- caster County in Negro Slavery Slavery, in its various forms, has come down to us from the regions of dim antiquity. Its prevalence in West- ern Europe was a certainty, predes- tined that it should taint the new civ- ilization soon to take root and spread in the Western

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

Slavery. It is hoped this plan will result in a con- centrated research upon this single topic, by various members of the Society, and that, thereby, the last authoritative word on the subject may be the product which our Society's research and industry brings forth. For our Society to be the final au

SIDELIGHTS ON SLAVERY In presenting this paper to our So- ciety it is with no expectation of giv- ing you anything new, startling or of great value. It only deals with sun- dry items which have been omitted by the preceding writers on the pres- ent subject, and which, however, seem- ed to be