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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

first abolition society. He was a member of the committee sent by the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress in 1790 to present an abolition petition...

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

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

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

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...

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

America: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Those not in attendance included Newfoundland, Nova...

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...

while living with the family of William Still, a clerk at the Pennsylvania Abolition Society who helped refugee slaves make their way along the Underground...

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

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

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...

involvement in slave trading. Franklin, though a key founder of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, owned slaves whom he manumitted (released). While serving in...

founder and president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and president of the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Society. He argued before the Supreme...

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 anti-slavery advocate Anthony Benezet and what became the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1774, spurred their commitment to the abolitionist movement...

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

February 7, 1795, to become part of the Constitution. In 1790, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society engaged in an unprecedented lobbying campaign to abolish slavery...