Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, (better known as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society) and was...

The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example...

the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (Pennsylvania Abolition Society) was...

found it wise to deposit apprentice and freedom papers with the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in Philadelphia." Johnson–Cannon gang, whose tavern and slave...

An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, passed by the Fifth Pennsylvania General Assembly on 1 March 1780, prescribed an end for slavery in the Commonwealth...

The Abolition of Slavery, The Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race" (Pennsylvania Abolition...

prevalent in states further north, such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, as well as in abolition-minded regions of some Southern states, such as Tennessee...

The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom...

years old, William Hartshorne and Samuel Coates, members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS), heard about Fuller's "extraordinary powers in arithmetic...

slavery. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society, led in part by Benjamin Franklin, was founded in 1775, and Pennsylvania began gradual abolition in 1780. In...