 | Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders - 1908 - 608 pages
...the name and style and title of "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," and by the same name shall have perpetual succession... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 434 pages
...Pennsylvania was formed in 1775, and bore the honorable title, " Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and for improving the African Race." Its President at the very adoption of the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin, who, in... | |
 | James Schouler - 1908 - 576 pages
...inaction reorganized in 1784, and finally incorporated with some changes in 178!), its full style being for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for the Relief...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. This, the earliest of American abolition societies, co-operated with the legislature in carrying out... | |
 | 1910 - 302 pages
...founded by Benjamin Franklin, who was its first president, " for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the conditions of the African race." Business did not prosper, so that Lucretia found it best to return... | |
 | Edward Raymond Turner - 1911 - 342 pages
...Streets. Constitution and Minutes of the PSAS, etc. 1787-1847. 3 vols.— HSP Records of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. 1748-1868. II vols. (This was the official title. These volumes are a mine of information about slaves,... | |
 | 1912 - 656 pages
...simply trying to gain strength by acting together. The official title of the body was "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for...for Improving the Condition of the African Race." It carried on now some of the most aggressive work against slavery that had ever been seen in Pennsylvania.... | |
 | James Schouler - 1882 - 554 pages
...with some changes in 17S9, its full style being for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, for the Belief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. This, the earliest of American abolition societies, co-operated with the legislature in carrying out... | |
 | 1913 - 386 pages
...the Negro districts of Philadelphia. 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 Africin Rice is the trustee of this fund. This society is also trustee for the r<;al estate and endowment... | |
 | 1914 - 254 pages
...1787 a new constitution was adopted and the name changed. The official title was "The Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, for...and for improving the condition of the African race. " Turner, Edward Raymond. The Underground railroad in Pennsylvania. PA. MAG. HIST., XXXVI (July) 309-318.... | |
 | Asa Earl Martin - 1918 - 176 pages
...Memoir of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; the Relief of the Free Negro Unlawfully held in bondage and for Improving the Condition of the African Race. Philadelphia, 1848. NELSON, DAVID: Lectures on Slavery delivered in February, 1839, at Northampton,... | |
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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,... 
