 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 676 pages
...New York or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council, a suggestion was made for ridding... | |
 | 1912 - 564 pages
...degree of Muhienberg College, 501 " 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," 94, 98 Pennsylvania Line, Itinerary of, from Pennsylvania to South Carolina, 1781-1782,... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 pages
...called by the state legislatures. 1787. — 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," was formed in Philadelphia. Franklin was its president, and Dr. Rush and Tench Coxc... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1878 - 676 pages
...New York or in New Jersey. The fourteenth of April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the council, a suggestion was made for ridding... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1879 - 722 pages
...signed by James Pemberton, President, records that Albert Gallatin "is a member of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." Party spirit was not violent in Pennsylvania during these few years of Washington's... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1881 - 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...in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race." He filled several important offices in the Society, and continued a member thereof until... | |
 | James Schouler - 1880 - 560 pages
...withsoniechanges in 1789, iw full style being for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for (lie Belief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. This, the earliest of American abolition societies, co-operated with the legislature... | |
 | Anna Davis Hallowell - 1884 - 608 pages
...established in Philadelphia. This one was organized in April, 1775, and was called "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the conditions of the African race." Benjamin Franklin was its first president after its incorporation... | |
 | 1887 - 734 pages
...the table. On the day following a memorial came from the Pennsylvania Society, an organization formed for "promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the African race," of which Benjamin Franklin was president. The ground taken in... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 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 unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the condition of the African race. In 1777, in the heads of a bill proposed by the... | |
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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. 
