...devastated continent of Africa. This page intentionally left blank Notes PROLOGUE The first such group, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, appeared in Philadelphia in 1775. While their aims were far more limited and they met only four times,...

...Massachusetts, pledged themselves to the abolition of slavery. The same year, Philadelphia Quakers established the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first association in the British Atlantic world dedicated to the promotion of antislavery principles.3...

...ABOLITION SOCIETY FOUNDED: ANNIVERSARY. Apr 14, 1775. The first abolition organization formed in the US was The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, founded at Philadelphia, PA. FIRST DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH PUBLISHED: ANNIVERSARY. Apr 14, 1828....

...States in the year 1775 surely appeared to be wasting his time, and wasting it dangerously. (Page 87) The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was formed in Philadelphia in 1775, mainly by Quakers. Five years later, the state of Pennsylvania...

...Assembly declared all slaves were considered to be "real estate." April 1775 — The Quakers established the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage, the first anti-slave organization in US May-September 1787 — The Constitutional Convention agreed...

...Revolutionary transformation. In 1775, a group of Philadelphians, the majority of whom were Quakers, formed the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first antislavery organization in the western world. A year later the Philadelphia Monthly meeting...