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'''''Isabella''''' was an English [[slave ship]] operating out of [[Bristol]] which brought 150 [[Atlantic slave trade|African slaves]] to [[Philadelphia]], [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] in 1684. The majority of these slaves were purchased directly by local Quaker settlers, who themselves had only arrived three years earlier to city. This marked a major chapter of the [[history of slavery in Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Jackson|first=Maurice|authorlink=Maurice Jackson|title=Let This Voice Be Heard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_b0QwpkS5MC&pg=PA11|year=2010|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-2126-8|page=11}}</ref><ref>[http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slave_laws_PA.htm Pennsylvania State Law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601024839/http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slave_laws_PA.htm |date=2012-06-01 }}-Slavery in America. Retrieved 2012-02-23.</ref> More slave ships arriving in Philadelphia would result in approximately 2,500 Black people living in the city by 1720.
== See also ==
* [[Quakers in the Abolition Movement]]: Even though many Quakers strongly opposed slavery, some Quaker families were slaveholders.
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