Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Port of Philadelphia, Transcripts of Slave Manifests, 1800-1841, transcribed circa 1937-1941, This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged chronologically by date of slave manifest. Transcripts of manifests prepared by the captains of domestic slave ships providing the gender, age, height, class or race, and place of residence of the slaves transported as well as the name of the shipper or owner. Two ships, the Schooner Phoebe and the schooner Prudence, are included that arrived from foreign ports bringing slaves directly from Africa. Disclaimer: The Pennsylvania State Archives provides digital access to a wide variety of historical documents, some of which may be considered offensive by current standards. The Archives does not endorse views expressed in these historical collections, but presents these collections to aid in scholarly research.
