 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 618 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 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... | |
 | W & R CHAMBERS - 1887 - 238 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. 1 Of each of these Dr Franklin was appointed... | |
 | Samuel Macpherson Janney - 1890 - 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... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack - 2009 - 332 pages
...Genius of Universal Emancipation (182138) ; Edward Needles, An Historical Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race (Philadelphia, 1848) ; and Thomas Drake, Quakers and Slavery in America (New Haven, 1950).... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1977 - 272 pages
...thereupon to the Houfe. Memorials of the feveral fccieties " for promoting the abolition of fl<very, for the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, and. for improving the condition of the African race," in -the ftates of Rhode-Hand, Connecticut, New- York, Pennfylvania, Maryland and Virginia,... | |
 | Patricia Hills, Roberta K. Tarbell, Whitney Museum of American 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...in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, published the diagrams in The American Museum in 1789; see fig. 3 1 in Ellwood Parry,... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley, Nicholas B. Wainwright, Edwin Wolf - 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...in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, founded in 1775, had long since fallen into a very moderate and very respectable type... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 pages
...American Philosophical Society, 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', and the first thoroughly secular university, the University of Pennsylvania; with John... | |
 | Priscilla Ferguson Clement - 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...in Bondage: and for Improving the Condition of the African Race (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania, Abolition Society, 1959), pp. 6-7, 10. On New York charities... | |
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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. 
