 Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free...  The African Repository - Page 1711827Full view - About this book
 | John Appleton (M.D.) - 1860 - 672 pages
...12mo, pp. 20. Baltimore, 1835. Constitution, and Act of Incorporation, of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage ; with Acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and of Congress, respecting Slaves and the Slave-trade.... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...objects which engaged the attention aud employed the pen of Franklin. As president of "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and...Relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage," he wrote a Plan for improving the condition of the free blacks. He advised a committee of twenty-four... | |
 | John Allan, Joseph Sabin - Books - 1864 - 374 pages
...calf. Lond. 1824. 2788. SLAVERY. Constitution and Act of Incorporation of the Pennsylvania Society for 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...maintained our national cause as well as the cause of the slave, addressed a letter to the Maryland " Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes, and others unlawfully detained in bondage," in which he set forth elaborately those binding rules of... | |
 | John Russell Smith - America - 1865 - 356 pages
...CLARKSON on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade. 8vo. Is 6d 1788 4443 CONSTITUTION of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery, and...relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage. 8vo. Is 6d Philadelphia, 1788 4444 DANNETT (Rev. H., of Liverpool) Examination of Mr. Harris's Scriptural... | |
 | John Russell Smith - 1865 - 378 pages
...on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade. 8vo. Is 6d " 1788 4443 CONSTITUTION of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery, and...relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage. 8vo. Is 6d Philadelphia, 1788 4444 DANNETT (Rev. H., of Liverpool) Examination of Mr. Harris's Scriptural... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Society of Friends - 1867 - 518 pages
...of bringing those into a society who were friendly to this cause." Hence originated the Pennsylvania Society " for promoting the abolition of slavery and...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage." Three years later, this society was enlarged; Doctor Benjamin Franklin was chosen president, James... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...maintained the national cause as well as the cause of the slave, addressed a letter to the " Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes and others unlawfully held in Bondage," where he set forth elaborately those binding r,des of interpretation,... | |
 | John D. Minor - History - 1870 - 434 pages
..." schools. In an Address to the Public, published by him, in 1789, as President of'the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes, etc., he proposes a " plan for improving the condition of the free blacks," one article of which is... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Legislators - 1871 - 508 pages
...with reference to slavery. Quite early in the annals of the State, we find a society instituted for the abolition of slavery and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage. An advertisement in a leading journal of Baltimore, dated May, 1796, offers "for sale an Irish servant-girl... | |
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