Volume 5, Minutes of meetings, records, and reports of committees. Standing Committee report, May 19. 1800, page [2]-[3]

New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849

1800-05-19

Two page report, with cover, dated May 19, 1800, signed by W. Robertson and addressed to Samuel L. Mitchill. Mostly concerned with the society's attempts to intervene in the illegal export of slaves from New York to the Southern States and the West Indies. It also mentions work with slaves illegally brought into New York, a veteran of the United States Army during the Revolutionary War, and enslaved Native Americans, among other cases.

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Mss Collection - BV Manumission Society - Volume 5

Slave trade--New York (State)
Indians of North America--New York (State)

New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated. Standing Committee

United States—History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Veterans

reports

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