 | Larry E. Tise - 1998 - 690 pages
...the reigning president of the formidable 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. Pemberton leaped into action. To confirm Banneker's identity. he turned to members of the newly organized... | |
 | Scott Christianson - 1998 - 422 pages
...president and changed the name to the "Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race." Old Franklin corresponded with antislavery leaders and labored with James Pemberton and other Quakers... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1885 - 502 pages
...University, and he belonged also to 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 ; and his certificate of membership in that Society was also presented. Edward Channing, Ph.D., of... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 pages
...blacks who had been illegally enslaved prompted the restoration of what was to become the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. The phrase "abolition of slavery" reflected the new state law of 1780 providing for mandatory gradual... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - 1999 - 424 pages
...60-61 and n70. " Its formal name was 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. " Wm Mimachan and Benj. Biggs to the Governor [Beverley Randolph], November 20, 1791, in William R.... | |
 | Francis S. Fox - 2010 - 236 pages
...having been told that a sympathetic court might grant her immediate freedom? Or did "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race" hear of Phillis's case and come to her aid? And what of the child? Did Mr. Hart send Phillis out of... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pages
...[the Committee of Correspondence of] 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 [hereinafter to be called the Pennsylvania Abolition Society], December 6, 1 790, Committee of Correspondence,... | |
 | George Elliott Clarke - 2002 - 508 pages
...College, NC, at the 120th Anniversary of 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. Np: np, 1895. [prose] - Report of President of Livingstone College, Located at Salisbury, NC, to the... | |
 | Neil A. Hamilton - 2002 - 386 pages
...officially named the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for the Release of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. The first formally organized antislavery society, it represented the religious impulse that undergirded... | |
 | Pamela R. Durso - 2003 - 232 pages
...lead in organizing abolition societies. In 1775, Pennsylvania Quakers established the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...for Improving the Condition of the African Race." They soon formed similar societies in New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware,... | |
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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," incorporated by Act of Assembly passed the 8th day of December, AD 1789,... 
