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- GLC#
- GLC07221
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1799/11/16
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to John Morton re: slave trade
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : address ; Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
"Put a stop to the exercise of the slave trade by our citizens. Spanish laws prohibit neutrals from trading to the main, unless they import a given number of what are called 'New Negroes,' meaning such as are immediately from Africa." Morton served as U.S. Consul in Havana. (Insect losses at edge of p. 1 affecting text.)
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