 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...Abolition Societies. That of Pennsylvania was formed in 1775, and bore the honorable title, " Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and for improving the African Race." Its President at the very adoption of the Constitution was Benjamin... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1885 - 730 pages
...Pennsylvania: Soeiety for The Memorial of the Pennsylvania Soeiety for promoting the * of silverv" Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and for improving the condition of the Afriean Race, Respectfully sheweth, that John, a free Negro Man,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 676 pages
...New York or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1878 - 676 pages
...New York or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council,... | |
 | Henry Adams - Bookplates - 1879 - 722 pages
...signed by James Pemberton, President, records that Albert Gallatin "is a member of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." Party spirit was not violent in Pennsylvania during... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Abolitionists - 1881 - 338 pages
...into a Society who were friendly to this cause, and who succeeded in establishing "the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." He filled several important offices in the Society,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 618 pages
...or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April 1775 was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes...improvement of the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council, a suggestion was made for ridding the state... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 620 pages
...or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April 1775 was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes...improvement of the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council, a suggestion was made for ridding the state... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...the table. On the day following a memorial came from the Pennsylvania Society, an organization formed for "promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief...unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the African race," of which Benjamin Franklin was president. The ground taken in the petition was advanced,... | |
 | Anna Davis Hallowell - Abolitionists - 1884 - 608 pages
...established in Philadelphia. This one was organized in April, 1775, and was called "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the conditions of the African race." Benjamin Franklin was its first president after... | |
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Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons ; and the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the condition of the African race. 
