Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

Bibliography

Articles

• Fogel, Robert W., and Stanley L. Engerman. “Philanthropy at Bargain Prices: Notes on the Economics of Gradual Emancipation.” Journal of Legal Studies 3, no. 2 (1974): 377–401.

Books

• Finkelman, Paul. An Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism, and Comity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
• Hall, Kermit, Paul Finkelman, and James W. Ely, Jr. American Legal History: Cases and Materials. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Murphy, Arthur. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 2 vols. New York: Arthur V. Blake, 1838.
• Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
• Nash, Gary B., and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Newman, Richard S., and James Mueller, eds. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
• Polgar, Paul J. Standard-Bearers of Equality: America's First Abolition Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
• Zilversmit, Arthur. The First Emancipation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.