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    The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia...
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    Anthony Benezet (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. He also founded the first public school for girls in North America...
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    allowing the Swedes to advance into Bohemia. 1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North...
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    Anti-Slavery Society) Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (American) Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis...
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    met in Philadelphia and organized the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage to focus on intervention in the cases of blacks...
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    Olaudah Equiano (category Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    founder of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Equiano was befriended and supported by abolitionists, many of whom encouraged...
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    1775 in the Postscript to the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (Pennsylvania...
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    the process of banning slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and Pennsylvania(1780). The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in...
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    the process of banning slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and Pennsylvania (1780). The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in...
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  • Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society For Promoting the Abolition of Slavery: the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage and for Improving the Condition...
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  • Relief of Free Negroes, and Others, Unlawfully Held in Bondage. In 1804, he travelled to Indiana to visit tribes in the West, and his journal of this trip...
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    Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first antislavery society in America; he also served as its president...
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  • 1775 April 14 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage holds four meetings. It was re-formed in 1784 as the Pennsylvania Abolition...
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  • James Bringhurst (category Members of the American Philosophical Society)
    Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. Grant, Faires & Rodgers...
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    led "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting The Abolition of Slavery, The Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition...
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    have the status of "apprentices" for the next six years. In Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on 1 August 1834, an unarmed group of mainly elderly Negroes being...
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  • James Poovey (category Year of death uncertain)
    Freedom in the Courts: The Work of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage...
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    the Abolition of Slavery, the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the Improvement of the Conditions of the African Race (February 3...
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    Like in the West America's Western Problem: Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition...
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  • (another kind of trespass) on the sale of a black person in England: "as soon as a negro comes to England he is free; one may be a villein in England, but...
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    Benjamin Banneker (category American people of Guinean descent)
    Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Pemberton then asked William Waring, a Philadelphia...
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    Cotton Mather (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    years, — the harsh conditions of their bondage, and celebrated their refusal to convert to Islam, unlike others who did. In his book The Negro Christianized...
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  • to Daly had unlawfully beaten and arrested one of their own in Manama. They released the detainee and staged a strike and some protests in Manama Souq...
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