 | Patricia Hills, Roberta K. Tarbell, Whitney Museum of American Art - Art - 1980 - 204 pages
...1971), p. 78, quoted in Young, "Black American Painters," p. 99. 68. An American group, 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, published the diagrams in The American Museum in 1789;... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley, Nicholas B. Wainwright, Edwin Wolf - History - 1982 - 870 pages
...egalitarianism that seemed to threaten Philadelphia itself. The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, founded in 1775, had long since fallen into a very... | |
 | Priscilla Ferguson Clement - History - 1985 - 236 pages
...341. 7. Alexander, Render Them Submissive, pp. 137-39; Margaret H. Bacon. History 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: Pennsylvania, Abolition Society, 1959),... | |
 | Temple University. Libraries - History - 1990 - 808 pages
...29000057] F 76 R52 1880 9505 SLAVERY (ALL DISCIPLINES) (CONTD) 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. Compiled from the minutes of the Society and other... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack, August Meier - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 364 pages
...against slavery was founded there, its lengthy title indicating its broad program: 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. Tubman became acquainted with abolitionist whites... | |
 | Eugene P. Link - Humanitarianism - 1992 - 326 pages
...Proceedings. New York, 1846, and Philadelphia, 1847. Needles, Edward. 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. Nelson, Horace. "Editorial on... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - Social Science - 1998 - 352 pages
...the year before the society disbanded, seventeen were Quakers. When it was reconstituted in 1784, the "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" had greatly expanded its purpose. Following the lead... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1885 - 502 pages
...preacher. He was one of the founders of Brown University, and he belonged also to 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 ; and his certificate of membership in that Society... | |
 | Scott Christianson - History - 1998 - 422 pages
...later, none other than Benjamin Franklin became its president and changed the name to 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." Old Franklin corresponded with antislavery leaders... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - History - 1998 - 690 pages
...forwarded Banneker's work to James Pemberton. the reigning president of the formidable 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. Pemberton leaped into action. To confirm Banneker's... | |
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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. 
