When the institution of slavery was legal and enslaved people considered property, slaveholders had to file and pay property taxes.… Continue Reading →
There are five different versions of John Cadwalader’s will available at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In the first four… Continue Reading →
Brooke Krancer graduated from Penn in 2020, where she studied History and Art History. She joined the Penn & Slavery Project in the fall of 2017 after taking Professor Kathleen Brown’s “Deciphering America” course. More about this author →