 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...humanity and policy as well as of religion. A society " for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race," had been organized in Philadelphia (1787), of which Franklin was president, and Dr. Rush and Tench... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1852 - 718 pages
...humanity and policy as well as of religion. A society " for promoting the abolition of slavery, for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race," had been organized in Philadelphia (1787), of which Franklin was president, and Dr. Rush and Tench... | |
 | United States. District Attorney (Pennsylvania : Eastern District) - Fugitive slaves - 1852 - 208 pages
...good man had been chosen first President of a " 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"—a society which deserves especial mention here, as one of the latest acts of its useful and... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1852 - 828 pages
...ultimately, •' The Providence Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for the Relief of Persons unlawfully held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race." It contained, in 171)0, one hundred and eighieen members, of whom sixty-efght lived in Massachusetts,... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1854 - 722 pages
...consider and report thereon by ll or otherwise. Mr. RORERTS presented the petition of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...and for improving the condition of the African race; and the petition was read, and referred to the committee on so much of the Message of the President... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 724 pages
...restrictions may be imposed on the issuing of patents.—Referred to tue Committee on the Judiciary. tioD of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully...for improving the condition of the African race," praying that further measures may be adopted for the protection of the rights of free negroes.—Referred... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 730 pages
...Pennsylvania Society for promoting the aboliH. OF R. Reportt on Variant Claims. FEBRUARY, 1817. tion of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully...for improving the condition of the African race," praying that further measures may be adopted for the protection of the rights of free negroes. —... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1854 - 870 pages
...ultimately, " The Providence Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for the Relief of Persons unlawfully held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race." It contained, in 1790, one hundred and eighteen members, of whom sixty-eight lived in Massachusetts,... | |
 | John Stanford - Old age (Christian) - 1855 - 488 pages
...respect, at a distance, may be mentioned his election, as early as 1796, as a member of "the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race ; " of which Dr. Benjamin Franklin was the first President, and which it is believed, echoed back the... | |
 | Slavery - 1855 - 24 pages
...the Acting Committee of " The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and /or the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage,...for improving the condition of the African Race." This Society, whose objects are sufficiently indicated by its name, was incorporated by Legislative... | |
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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. 
