Ch. 5 Lesson 2- New Pennsylvanias

1688

1750

1775

work on farms or businesses without pay for five to seven years.

pay for their own trip back to England.

build their own houses and grow their own crops.

Quakers

Native Americans

Germans

People from West Africa

Many Africans became ill and died on the tip across the Atlantic Ocean.

Europeans supplies goods to slave traders in Africa in exchange for the kidnapped Africans.

The number of enslaved Africans in Pennsylvania peaked in 1750.

Slaves were freed after they worked without pay for 7 years.

Francis Daniel Pastorius

Olaudah Equiano

William Penn

King Charles II

Philadelphia Quakers banned slaveholders from church business meetings.

Quakers would not accept slave traders as members.

Quakers urged people to free their slaves.

Quakers created the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to help people who had been freed from slavery.