| Lewis James Carey - 1928 - 266 頁
...January 4, 1760, Calendar Franklin Papers, I, 21. 2 This Society began its existence April 14, 1775, as "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage." It was reorganized in 1784, and a new name and constitution was adopted in 1787. The State Legislature... | |
| 1868 - 860 頁
...attention to outside organization, and, in company with Dr. Rush, James Pemberton, and others, he founded the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage, and was instrumental in rescuing a body of negroes who had been kidnapped from New Jersey, and were... | |
| John Franklin Jameson - 1967 - 128 頁
...Philadelphia. The members were mostly of the Society of Friends. The organization took the name of "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage." In the preamble of their constitution they point out that "loosing the bonds of wickedness and setting... | |
| Gary B. Nash - 1988 - 372 頁
...firefight at Concord and Lexington. Meeting at the Rising Sun Tavern, ten white Philadelphians founded the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Though not explicitly an abolition society at first, it would flower after the Revolution into the... | |
| Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund - 1991 - 270 頁
...Concord and Lexington. Ten Philadelphians met in early April 1775 at the Rising Sun Tavern to found the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Coming to the tavern was a small group of men, mostly Quaker artisans and small retailers, who had... | |
| John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 頁
...Philadelphia. The members were mostly of the Society of Friends. The organization took the name of "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage." In the preamble of their constitution they point out that "loosing the bonds of wickedness and setting... | |
| James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton - 1998 - 352 頁
...Lexington and Concord, a small group of ten men met at the Rising Sun Tavern in Philadelphia to form the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. The group called together by Anthony Benezet included Thomas Paine, and seven of the ten were Quakers.... | |
| Oscar Reiss - 1997 - 306 頁
...area as a lost cause. The first of many manumission societies was founded in 1775 in Philadelphia. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage had its activities curtailed by the British occupation of the city, but it was revived in 1784. The... | |
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