Forging freedom : the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840 / Gary B. Nash.

Some account of the city of Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, and seat of the Federal Congress  of its civil and religious institutions, population, trade, and government; interspersed with occasional observations. By Benjamin Davies.

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