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                                              Pennsylvania


England took control of Pennsylvania in 1644 this is when the number of captured Africans skyrocketed. The Royal officials stated  "that liberty of trade may be granted us with the neighboring colony of Maryland for the supplying us with Negroes ... without which we cannot subsist."Not only was colonial Pennsylvania a slave-owning society, but the lives of free blacks in the colony were controlled by law. The restrictions on slaves were mild, by Northern standards, but those on freemen were comparatively strict. The restrictions had begun almost with the colony itself. After 1700  Africans that were free or enslaved, were tried in separate courts, without any representation by a jury. 


                          



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