Excerpt from Slavery in Pennsylvania: A Dissertation to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910
English captured New Amstel, afterward New Castle, the place was plundered, and a number of negroes were confiscated and sold. From Peter Alricks several were taken; of these eleven Were restored to him.' At least a few were living on the shores of the Delaware River in A year later an emissary was sent by the jus tices of New Castle to request most urgently permission to import negroes from Maryland.
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