*"I have since had the satisfaction to learn, that a disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of the Pennsylvanians have set their Slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more into that Colony."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uFYCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42 The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks]</ref> | *"I have since had the satisfaction to learn, that a disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of the Pennsylvanians have set their Slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more into that Colony."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uFYCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42 The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks]</ref> |