 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1899 - 204 pages
...irrespective of population, has an equal representation in the Senate. September 8th, 1798. — "The Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the relief of free negroes and others unlawfully held in bondage, the first Anti-Slavery Society in Maryland, the fourth in the... | |
 | Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders - Law - 1908 - 608 pages
...commonwealth. [Section IV.] (Section V, PL) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage as enlarged at a meeting of the said Society... | |
 | Lawrence Buckley Thomas - 1896 - 800 pages
...in the welfare of the negroes, and one of the organizers and first Vice-president of the Maryland " Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes and Others unlawfully held in Bondage." This was the fourth in the United States and the sixth in the... | |
 | Charles Burr Ogden - Ogden family - 1898 - 374 pages
...and at a time when they sorely needed friends. He was the President of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage. This society was founded by Benjamin Franklin, and he was its first President. Thomas Shipley d. 1836,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 510 pages
...friend, yours most affectionately, MDLXX B. FRANKLIN. AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, AND...RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE PHILADELPHIA, 9 November, 1789. It is with peculiar satisfaction we assure the friends of humanity,... | |
 | Elihu Samuel Riley - Political Science - 1904 - 442 pages
...Dorsey, respecting the conduct of the Society in Baltimore County, which styled itself, " The Maryland Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the relief of free Negroes and others unlawfully held in bondage," in supporting the petitions in the Criminal Court of Baltimore... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pages
...for the security of his reputation. AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, AND THE RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE PHILADELPHIA, 9 November, 1789. It is with peculiar satisfaction we assure the friends of humanity,... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1906 - 118 pages
...Paris, | de 1'Imprimerie Royale. | M,DCC,LXXXI. I Avec approbation et privilege. | 8vo, pp. 115. 371 The | Constitution | of the | Pennsylvania Society,...of | Free Negroes, | unlawfully held in ) Bondage. | Begun in the Year 1774, and enlarged on the | twenty-third of April, 1787.| ... 8 ... Philadelphia:... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1907 - 880 pages
...Society,1 in the month called April; and, in order to perform the different services with expedition, 1 The Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Blacks.— ED. regularity, and energy, this committee shall resolve itself into the following sub-committees,... | |
 | 1908 - 344 pages
...societies in the state. One, which was in existence from the summer of 1789 till 1796, had for its purpose the abolition of slavery and the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage. Its membership was large, and among the cultured class. 3 Another society in existence before 1825... | |
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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 Negroes unla-wfully held in... 
