An issue of the important newspaper printed and published by Benjamin Franklin. Page one features a letter from Rev. George Whitefield to the inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, which reads in part: “I lately passed through your Provinces in my way hither, I was sensibly touched with a Fellow-feeling of the miseries of the poor Negroes…your slaves, I believe, work as hard if not harder than the horse whereon you ride. These, after they have done their work, are fed and taken proper care of; but many Negroes when wearied with labour in your plantations, have been obliged to grind their own corn after they return home…”