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Formation
of world's first Anti-Slavery Society
Constitution
and Minutes of the Society
On
April 14, 1775 (just four days before Paul Revere's
famous ride), the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes
Unlawfully Held in Bondage was founded.
In February 1784 it was reorganized as the Pennsylvania
Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the
Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
Its
original members included Anthony Benezet and John
Woolman.
The
first British Anti-Slavery Society —
the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
(later to become the Society for the Abolition of the
Slave Trade) — was not founded until 1787.
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Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in the
USA:
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Abraham
Lincoln
American
Civil War
13th
Amendment to the Bill of Rights
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Anti-Slavery Society
Vermont
Virgin
Islands
Links
to pages dealing with the abolition of slavery in other
countries:
British
campaign against slavery
Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1846)
Thomas
Clarkson (1760-1845)
Denmark
Peter
Van Scholten
Granville
Sharp (1735-1813)
Slave
Trade Act 1807
Slave
Trade Act 1824
Slave
Trade Act 1843
Slavery
Abolition Act 1833
Joseph
Sturge (1793-1859)
William
Wilberforce (1759-1833)
Links
to other pages dealing with slavery:
Does
slavery still exist?
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