 | Temple University. Libraries - 1990 - 808 páginas
...CONSTITUTION AND ACT OF INCORPORATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND THE RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES, UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE....AND FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE AFRICAN RACE; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY,... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack, August Meier - 1988 - 364 páginas
...title indicating its broad program: 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. Tubman became acquainted with abolitionist whites through her association with the General Vigilance... | |
 | Shirley J. Yee - 1992 - 220 páginas
...Sorrow, and Sterling, We Are Your Sisters, 89-104. 53. Quaker abolitionists founded the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race in 1775. Anti-slavery societies sometimes studied the condition of the free black community in their... | |
 | Eugene P. Link - 1992 - 326 páginas
...Needles, Edward. An Historical 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 of the African Race. Philadelphia, 1848. Nelson, Horace. "Editorial on NY School of Practical Medicine." Nelson's American... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 páginas
...the more comprehensive name of "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage,...for improving the Condition of the African Race." The New York "Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves" was organized in 1785, with John Jay... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1997 - 564 páginas
...The census of 1850 reported 236 slaves in the North. tThe society, incorporated as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, was founded in 1775. Its first president was Benjamin Franklin, its secretary Thomas Harrison. Still... | |
 | James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - 1998 - 352 páginas
...were Quakers. When it was reconstituted in 1784, the "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" had greatly expanded its purpose. Following the lead of the Philadelphians, antislavery organizations... | |
 | Oscar Reiss - 1997 - 306 páginas
...elected president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race (1787). As president, he addressed the people of Philadelphia on the evils of slavery: Slavery is such... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, George A. Rawlyk - 1997 - 296 páginas
...Statutorily incorporated in 1789 as "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery and for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage and for the improving the condition of the African race," the following year this body (under the presidency... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - 1999 - 554 páginas
...rededicated itself to the cause, becoming the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in...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... | |
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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," incorporated by Act of Assembly passed the 8th day of December, AD 1789,... 
