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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. "
The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of ... - Page 405
by James Hardie - 1801
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Abolitionism and American Law

John R. McKivigan - History - 1999 - 424 pages
...cited in Onuf, Origins of the Federal Republic, 60-61 and n70. " Its formal name was 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. " Wm Mimachan and Benj. Biggs to the Governor [Beverley...
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Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

Paul Finkelman - History - 316 pages
...in Onuf, Origins of the Federal Republic, 60-61 and n.70. 16. Its formal name was 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. 17. Wm. Mimachan and Benj. Biggs to the Governor [Beverley...
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Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature

George Elliott Clarke - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 508 pages
...of Dr. WH Goler, President of Livingston College, NC, at the 120th Anniversary 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. Np: np, 1895. [prose] - Report of President of Livingstone...
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Moral Visions and Material Ambitions: Philadelphia Struggles to Define the ...

A. Kristen Foster - Business & Economics - 2004 - 226 pages
...Pennsylvania. See the above document, 10-11. 53. 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 (1848; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969), 29; Nash,...
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Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas ...

James A. McGowan - History - 2005 - 236 pages
...would bring down the walls of the building." On June 1, 1818, Thomas Garrett joined 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." This was the first organization in America devoted...
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Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate ...

David L. Lightner - Social Science - 2006 - 240 pages
...representatives into supporting their demands. 8. 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 Compiled from the Minutes of the Society and Other...
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In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane ...

Nat Brandt, Yanna Brandt - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 254 pages
...Still, drafted the society's testimonial to him: [Passmore] was a faithful member of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...the Improvement of the Condition of the African Race for nearly half a century. He had reached the age of 73 years and was President of the Society at the...
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Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper

Jacqueline Bacon - History - 2007 - 340 pages
...New York: New York University Press, 1996. 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. Newman, Samuel P. Address Delivered...
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But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis

Margaret Hope Bacon - History - 2012 - 308 pages
...Forten Grimke," Notable American Women, 2: 97. 55. Anonymous, Centennial Anniversary 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: Grant, Faires, & Rogers, printers, 1875),...
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Spirit of Humanity, and Animals' Friend: Extracts from the Enlightened and ...

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Animal welfare - 1899 - 340 pages
...humanity: The Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons; and the Pennsyhania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...condition of the African race. Of each of these Dr. FBANKLIN was president. His name, as president of the abolition society, was signed to the memorial...
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