 | Peter George Mode - 1921 - 776 pages
...Father of Mankind, the subscribers have associated themselves, under the title of the 'Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage. ' For effecting these purposes, they have adopted the following constitution:... | |
 | James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 184 pages
...he wrote and spoke often on the dangers of slavery, and aided in the formation of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. One address that he made en behalf of the society exhibits an almost prophetic... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 298 pages
...CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 268 XXXIII. — AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND THE RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE . . . .271 ESSAYS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC r PLAN FOR... | |
 | Lewis James Carey - 1928 - 266 pages
...African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. London, 1808. 2 vols. The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage. Philadelphia, 1787. The Historical Magazine. Vol. Ill, April, 1859. New... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 pages
...political enquiries ; for the medical relief of the poor, under the title of the Philadelphia Dispensary; for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage; for propagating the gospel among the Indians, under the direction of the... | |
 | 1849 - 790 pages
...on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays," at two dollars and a half per annum. Slavery Society. — " The Maryland Society for promoting the abolition of...free negroes and others unlawfully held in bondage," had a long list of counsellors, committees, secretary, treasurer, &.C., for the year. Small sums were... | |
 | 1918 - 548 pages
...action became a part of the yearly meetings after 1696, growing in favor until in 1774 the "Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage ' ' was organized, the first organization against this practice. Thus are... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton - 1967 - 654 pages
...see Forrest, Uriah, and Mercer, John F., and Murray, William Vans; US Senator from, see Henry, John Maryland Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the relief of free Negroes . . . ,517 Massachusetts Bank, 105, 139 Massachusetts: act of, 503-4; and claim of Henry Howell Williams,... | |
 | 1969 - 122 pages
...18th-century anti-slavery movement than those of — to give its full incorporated title — the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage. 27. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Autograph Letter in the Third Person to James Pemberton.... | |
 | Charles G. Steffen - 1984 - 324 pages
...States, 18oo, Baltimore City; Fourth Census of the United States, 182o, Baltimore City. 19. At a Meeting of "the Maryland Society for promoting the Abolition...Negroes, and others, unlawfully held in Bondage," held at Baltimore, the 4th of February, 1792 (Baltimore, 1792); Minutes of the Proceedings of a Convention... | |
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Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free... 
