# L1:2: Manumission Book

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## Location Info 

* [**Item Description(active tab)**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/object/hc135523#edit-group-openseadragon-item-descrip)
* [**Transcription**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/object/hc135523#edit-group-transcription)

**Member of**

[**Arch Street Monthly Meeting Records**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/collections/arch-street-monthly-meeting-records)

[**Quakers and Slavery**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/collections/quakers-and-slavery)

**Description**

Manumissions Book, 1772-1786. This volume is filled with the names of Quakers and others who manumitted the people they enslaved and provides the name of their Meeting and names of the people they are manumitting. While all the districts of Philadelphia are represented, the greatest number of manumissions came from members of the Monthly meeting of Philadelphia (Arch Street). Pages 60-80, 113-160, 183-186, and 194-212 from manumissions book are blank.

**Linked Agent**

Author (aut): [**Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/12346)

**Physical Form**

[**Text**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/236)

**Genre**

[**manuscripts**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/484)

**Date Created**

1772 to 1786

**Subject (Topic)**

[**Slavery and the church--Society of Friends**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/17297)

[**Slaveholders**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/17294)

[**Slaves--Emancipation**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/17327)

[**Free African Americans**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/15101)

**Geographic Subject**

[**Philadelphia (Pa.)**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/22282)

**Language**

[**English**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/233)

**Extent**

184 pages ; 33 cm

**Resource Type**

[**Collection**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/55)

**Internet Media Type**

image/tiff

**Digital Origin**

[**reformatted digital**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/232)

**Institution**

[**Haverford College**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/71)

**Library**

[**phc**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/249)

**Department**

[**Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/246)

**Shelf Locator**

HC.PhM.P455.04.075 (1250/S2.15)

**Collection Guide**

[**Arch Street Monthly Meeting Records**](http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/9/resources/5591)

**Local Identifier**

HC09-10168

**PID**

hc:135523

**Record Content Source**

[**phc**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/245)

**Rights Statement**

[**NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES**](https://digitalcollections.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/taxonomy/term/234)

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