 | Scott Christianson - History - 1998 - 422 pages
...later, none other than Benjamin Franklin became its president and changed the name to the "Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...for improving the condition of the African race." Old Franklin corresponded with antislavery leaders and labored with James Pemberton and other Quakers... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - History - 1998 - 690 pages
...forwarded Banneker's work to James Pemberton. the reigning president of the formidable Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. the...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1885 - 502 pages
...preacher. He was one of the founders of Brown University, and he belonged also to the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...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... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - History - 1999 - 554 pages
...itself to the cause, becoming 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. One of the organization's most fervent members was Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of... | |
 | David Brion Davis - History - 1999 - 577 pages
...restoration of what was to become 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. The phrase "abolition of slavery" reflected the new state law of 1780 providing for mandatory gradual... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - History - 1999 - 424 pages
...extradition procedure for a variety " Alex. Addison to ]the Committee of Correspondence of] the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...of Free Negroes unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Ihe Improvement of the Condition of the African Race [hereinafter to be called the Pennsylvania Abolition... | |
 | Francis S. Fox - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 236 pages
...her immediate freedom? Or did "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" hear of Phillis's case and come to her aid? And what of the child? Did Mr. Hart send Phillis out of... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 316 pages
...in Onuf, Origins of the Federal Republic, 60-61 and n.70. 16. Its formal name was the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. 17. Wm. Mimachan and Benj. Biggs to the Governor [Beverley Randolph], November 20, 1791, in William... | |
 | George Elliott Clarke - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 508 pages
...of Dr. WH Goler, President of Livingston College, NC, at the 120th Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 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... | |
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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. 
