 | George Lunt - 1866 - 662 pages
...abolition of the slave trade ; the other came from a body of persons calling themselves " The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the African race." The latter, singularly enough, was signed by Dr. Franklin, as... | |
 | George Lunt - 1867 - 536 pages
...abolition of the slave trade ; the other came from a body of persons calling themselves " The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the African race." The latter, singularly enough, was signed by Dr. Franklin, as... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 558 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 Franklin, who, in... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1871 - 512 pages
...in Philadelphia, one a " society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons," and the other a " 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." His last public act was signing a memorial,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1874 - 706 pages
...the first of April, that the " Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and for improving the condition of the African Race," had decided to put its books and papers in actual use, in charge of this society. The... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1873 - 788 pages
...questioned." Also, a memorial from the Pennsylvania 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, praying that the Constitution be so amended as to prevent any discrimination by any corporation,... | |
 | William Frederick Poole - 1873 - 120 pages
...themselves, under the title of 'The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race.'" Needles's Memoir, p. 30. *The secretaries were directed to have one thousand copies... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1873 - 830 pages
...Convention: RESPECTED FRIENDS :— The Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery; for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition otthe African race, feeling that with the abolition of chattel slavery, and the admission of the colored... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 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 Franklin, who, in... | |
 | 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...in Bondage, and for improving the condition of the Afriean Race, Respectfully sheweth, that John, a free Negro Man, residing at Washington, in the County... | |
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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. 
