 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 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... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 pages
...humanity—' The Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons;' and 'The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...improvement of the condition of the African race. 1 Of each of these Dr Franklin was appointed president. Many years previously he had publicly declared... | |
 | Samuel Macpherson Janney - 1890 - 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 Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...House, was from "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abelition of Slavery, the Relief of frec Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and the Improvement of the condition of the African race ;" objects of benevolence which individuals could very properly promote in their own states. But this... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 434 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... | |
 | Francis Curtis - United States - 1904 - 568 pages
...diverted during the war. In 1787 in revising its constitution it took the name 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." Benjamin Franklin was then made its president, and... | |
 | Kate Brousseau - African Americans - 1904 - 428 pages
...American Historical Association, 1890. NEEDLES, EDWARD. — An Historical memoir of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery; the relief of free negroes held in bondage, etc. Philadelphia, 1848, 8vo. p. 116. NEGRO PLOT IN NEW YORK m 1741, National Magazine,... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1916 - 600 pages
...same effect from the Society of Friends in New York. The next day the memorial of the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the conditions of the African race was presented and read. The memorial was signed by Benjamin Franklin,... | |
 | Henry Richard Mueller - Pennsylvania - 1922 - 304 pages
...Pierce and the Catholics. Philadelphia, 1852. Five Years Abstract of Transactions 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. Philadelphia, 1853. Will the Interests of Pennsylvania... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack - Political Science - 2009 - 332 pages
...Genius of Universal Emancipation (182138) ; Edward Needles, An Historical Memoir 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 (Philadelphia, 1848) ; and Thomas Drake, Quakers and... | |
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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. 
