Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, (better known as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society) and was...

the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (Pennsylvania Abolition Society) was...

found it wise to deposit apprentice and freedom papers with the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in Philadelphia." Johnson–Cannon gang, whose tavern and slave...

An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Fifth Pennsylvania General Assembly on 1 March 1780, prescribed an end for slavery in the Commonwealth...

The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example...

years old, William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS), heard about Fuller's "extraordinary powers in arithmetic...

prevalent in states further north, such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, as well as in abolition-minded regions of some Southern states, such as Tennessee...

The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom...

including the famed William Heberden at the Pennsylvania Hospital, which he helped found. In 1774, he founded the "Society for Inoculating the Poor Gratis", in...

The Abolition of Slavery, The Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race" (Pennsylvania Abolition...

slavery. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society, led in part by Benjamin Franklin, was founded in 1775, and Pennsylvania began gradual abolition in 1780. In...

"Founding of Pennsylvania Abolition Society". PBS. "Benjamin Franklin and Slavery". Benjamin Franklin for The Pennsylvania Abolition Society to the United...

The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to...

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in 1942 in the UK as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Pennsylvania Abolition Society, which formed in Philadelphia in 1775 with a mission to abolish...

Manumission Society was an American organization founded in 1785 by U.S. Founding Father John Jay, among others, to promote the gradual abolition of slavery...

late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. For example, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, first founded in 1775, consisted primarily of Quakers; seven...

the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. In 1842, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Prigg v. Pennsylvania that the 1788 amendment to the Gradual Abolition Act...

by the principles of the Religious Society of Friends, Anthony Benezet formed the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1775, believing that all ethnic groups...

fourteen and became a wealthy sailmaker and abolitionist. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society was founded by white Quakers in 1775 and eventually became a...

slave trading. Franklin, though he was a key founder of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, originally owned slaves whom he later manumitted (released)...

In 1775, the Quakers founded first antislavery society in the world, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.: 245 : 186  In the first two decades after the...

slaveholder for much of his life, became a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the first recognized organization for abolitionists...

brought their enslaved peoples with them, but defended by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Through 1796, 500 slaves from Saint-Domingue gained freedom...

Pennsylvania, which became part of its library. The University of Pennsylvania eventually gave them as a gift to the American Philosophical Society....

American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. By the start of the American Revolution, Philadelphia was the...

Revolution. Nagy, John A. Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution. 2011. ISBN 159416133X. Nagy, John A....

cent United States Postal Service Street lighting President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society Master, Les Neuf Sœurs Gravesite Writings The Papers of Benjamin...

Franklin; Colm Feore narrates. In 1757 Franklin moves to London, sent from Pennsylvania on a mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands. Franklin...

and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, ten private schools for blacks were operating in Philadelphia. PREAMBLE OF THE FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY Philadelphia...