 | 1830 - 302 pages
...further information. Abolition Society. "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race," was formed in the year 1774, enlarged in 1787, and incorporated in 1789. Among those who first associated... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - 1832 - 576 pages
...the public to found the house of re. fuge. The Pennsylvania society, for the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...and for improving the condition of the African race, was formed in 1724. The chief end of its institution, the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania, having... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1835 - 398 pages
...this cause;" and who succeeded in' establishing the "Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race." He filled several important offices in the Society, and continued a member thereof until his decease.... | |
 | 1835 - 328 pages
...further information. Abolition Society. "The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race," was formed in the year 1774, enlarged in 1787, and incorporated in 1789. Among those who first associated... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - 1835 - 392 pages
...this cause;" and who succeeded in establishing the "Society for promoting the abolilion of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage,...for improving the condition of the African race." He filled several important offices in the Society, and continued a member thereof until his decease.... | |
 | Charles George Sommers - 1835 - 448 pages
...Stanford was elected a member of the " Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, the RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES unlawfully held in BONDAGE,...for IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE AFRICAN RACE." Among Mr. Stanford's numerous correspondents, it is gratifying to find the name of the venerable and... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1836 - 408 pages
...printed by J ohn Ormrod ; 1800. " 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, have often been impressed with a very anxious solicitude for your welfare. They have exerted themselves... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 pages
...incorporate a society by the name of the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and for the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in...for improving the condition of the African race." No society was ever founded for nobler objects, or more deserving of public encouragement and approbation... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 388 pages
...-»ssault on the rights of others and detriment to the object of it. "1 became a member of the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery — for the relief of free negroes held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race, on ihe 6th of November, 1792.... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1840 - 342 pages
...proceeding of the kind, ia any nation; and, soon afterwards, there was instituted in the same state, a society "for promoting the abolition of slavery, for...for improving the condition of the African race." All the states, north and east of Maryland, have since made laws for their gradual emancipation. On... | |
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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,... 
