“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”

Glossary

• mastrisses mistresses
• natif native
• negers an antique (and not derogatory) form of “Negro,” based on the Germanic word for “black.”
• pleid plead
• Turks a reference to the Barbary pirates operating off the north coast of Africa
• viz. an abbreviation of the Latin videlicet, meaning “that is.”
• wch which
• ye the