 | 1893 - 468 pages
...revised its constitution, enlarged both its name and range of effort, and became the " Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." Benjamin Franklin was made its President. Among its first acts was the distribution... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...humanity — The Philadelphia 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. Of each of these Dr. Franklin was president.... | |
 | John Seely Stone - 1848 - 666 pages
...of July, 1795, he was elected a member of " The Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." At the annual meeting of that society for 1796, he was elected one of its counsellors... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1849 - 762 pages
...time, and passed. Memorials of the several Societies " for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," in the States of Rhode Island, Connecticut; New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia,... | |
 | John Seely Stone - 1849 - 572 pages
...of July, 1795, he was elected a member of " The Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race. " At the annual meeting of that society for 1796, he was elected one of its counsellors... | |
 | 1850 - 616 pages
...earnest member of the Masonic fraternity, of " the Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," and of " the Resolution Fire Company." As a member and officer of these and kindred... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 716 pages
...humanity and policy as well as of religion. A society " for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," had been organized in Philadelphia (1787), of which Franklin was president, and Dr.... | |
 | United States. District Attorney (Pennsylvania : Eastern District) - 1852 - 208 pages
...good man had been chosen first President of a " Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race"—a society which deserves especial mention here, as one of the latest acts of its useful... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 718 pages
...humanity and policy as well as of religion. A society " for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," had been organized in Philadelphia (1787), of which Franklin was president, and Dr.... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1854 - 722 pages
...consider and report thereon by ll or otherwise. Mr. RORERTS presented the petition of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race; and the petition was read, and referred to the committee on so much of the Message of... | |
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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. 
