...principles of association in the eighteenth century. The purpose of the f1rst one listed — the "Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be liberated" — is self-explanatory; the second, the Society of Cincinnati, was a seed of the f1rst party system,...

...of Manhattan and Brooklyn — among them a significant number of slaveholders — formed a "society for promoting the Manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or maybe Liberated," or the New York Manumission Society. In its founding document, the NYMS credited...

...1785, at the home of innkeeper John Simmons, these men held the first meeting of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been or May Be Liberated. The Manumission Society was the first non-Quaker organization in New York to devote itself to emancipation....

...this work. cled OiDiioqrapn oqrapny Act of Incorporation, and Constitution of the Neiv York Society, for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May be Liberated. Adopted January 31, 1809. New York: Samuel Wood, 1810. Text-fkhe. Adair, Douglass Greybill. Fame and...

...Samuel Miller, A Discourse Delivered April 12, 1797, at the Request of and Before the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have or May Be Liberated (New York, 1797), 16; see also a poem "Addressed to the Consciences of Every American...

...Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race; and the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated. The former, when organized, was known simply as the Society for the Relief of the Free Negroes, Unlawfully...

...many of its members (Dunlap, Smith, Johnson, Miller, and Brown) were active in the New- York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been or May Be Liberated. The New York abolitionist society had close personal and institutional links with the Pennsylvania...

...Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans; Shnring It to Be the Duty and Interest of the American States to Emancipate All their African Slaves. ......Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Sueh of Them as Have Been, or May Be, Liberated (1785: Evans, American Bibliography no. 19044, Early...

...devoting the intermediate hours to dining and repose. The rate of discount was six per cent. The "Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves and Protecting such of them as have been or may be Liberated," with John Jay for president, met at the Coffee House. A list of 167 regular members of the Cincinnati...