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Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Slave trade and John PLEASANTS, Q
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 07:40:46 EST

In a message dated 2/3/01 11:43:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

<< "John
Pleasants engaged in merchandizing from the very first and was for years a
factor for the Paggens, London merchants engaged in colonial trade."
>>

David and Va-Southsiders,

On the Quaker list they suggested that Paggens was his partner in the slave
trade. It is very clear that Paggens was involved in slave trade. Also the
Quakers didn't adopt "policies" against slavery until the last half of the
18th century. I have several pretty impressive slave totals for some of my
1700s VA Quakers, including Christopher Clark and Joseph Anthony..

Here is the Quaker Roots post, which I provides more information:

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I have just received some disturbing information from a fellow PLEASANTS
researcher. Can anyone else here tell me if they knew of this?!

<snip>the Quaker, John Pleasants, the emigrant
of Curles, Henrico, wasn't just a slave owner - he was a slave merchant.

I purchased a tattered first edition copy of the "Economic History
of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Vol II" by Philip Alexander Bruce.
It was in an antique store and the copyright date is 1895. The subtitle of
the book is "An Inquiry Into the Material Condition of the People, Based
Upon Original and Contemporaneous Records." Bruce authored a profuse number
of books well into the 1900's and was one time the corresponding secretary
of the Virginia Historical Society.

On page 82 is the footnote:
...extract from a letter of William Byrd, dated June 21, 1684: "Mr. Paggin
(a London merchant) sent about a fortnight since into these parts, 34
negroes with a considerable quantity of dry goods and seven or eight tons of
rum and sugar, which I fear will bring our people much into debt and
occasion them to be careless with the tobacco they make." Letters of
William Byrd. These negroes, it seems, were placed in the hands of Mr.
Kennon and Mr. Pleasants for sale.

On page 100 is the footnote:
...On the petition of John Pleasants and the motion of Richard Kennon,
consignees of William Paggin and Company, "desiring the resolution of this
Right Worshipful Court concerning some negroes of the said Company consigned
them to sell, but at ye time of listing tithables, remaining in their
possession undisposed of... Records of Henrico County, vol. 1682-1701, p.
81, Va. State Library.

Thanks for your help,
Monica


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Best Regards and thank you to all who responded to my query,

Janet (Baugh) Hunter

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