Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully held in Bondage
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

found: nuc87-43086: Its Microfilm publications of the Pennsylvania ... [MI] 1976?(hdg. on TxU rept.: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; usage: Pennsylvania Abolition Society)

found: LC data base, 10/29/87(hdg.: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; usages: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Pennsylvania Abolition Society)

found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; usage: Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage; 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; note: establ. in 1775 as Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage; 1787 name changed to Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery)

found: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society (website), viewed April 19, 2022(organized in 1775 as 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; founded in 1775 at the Rising Sun Tavern in Philadelphia, as a Society for the "Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage"; its mission was later expanded in the 1780s to include "improving the Condition of the African Race"; for the founders, this primarily meant offering jobs and education to black youth, whether escaped slaves from the South or native Philadelphians; the Pennsylvania Abolition Society continues its work through grants to organizations and programs that seek to improve conditions of African Americans throughout Pennsylvania; its papers are on deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) - http://www.paabolition.org/

found: Its Rules for the regulation of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, and Others, Unlawfully Held in Bondage, 1784.