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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abolitionists. (search)
Abolitionists. The first society established for promoting public sentiment in favor of the abolition of slavery was formed in Philadelphia on April 14, 1775, with Benjamin Franklin as president and Benjamin Rush as secretary. John Jay was the first president of a society for the same purpose formed in New York, Jan. 25, 1785, and called the New York manumission Society. The Society of Friends, or Quakers, always opposed slavery, and were a perpetual and active abolition society, presenting to the national Congress the first petition on the subject. Other abolition societies followed — in Rhode Island in 1786, in Maryland in 1789, in Connecticut in 1790, in Virginia in 1791, and in New Jersey in 1792. These societies held annual conventions, and their operations were viewed by the more humane slave-holders with some favor, since they aimed at nothing practical or troublesome, except petitions to Congress, and served as a moral palliative to the continuance of the practice. Th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ewport......Dec. 6, 1774 Maryland convention enrolls the militia and votes £10,000 to purchase arms......Dec. 8-12, 1774 New Hampshire freemen seize 100 barrels of powder and some ordnance at Portsmouth......Dec. 11, 1774 Benjamin Franklin returns from England......April, 1775 Delegates from Georgia to Congress by letter express loyalty, and explain inability to attend......April 8, 1775 First anti-slavery society in the United States formed by Quakers of Philadelphia......April 14, 1775 Battle of Lexington, Mass., at dawn of......April 19, 1775 [For the chronological record of the war for independence see Revolutionary War, in vol. VII.] Letters from England to public officials in America, expressing determination of England to coerce the colonies, intercepted at Charleston, S. C......April 19, 1775 Second Continental Congress meets at Independence Hall, Philadelphia......May 10, 1775 [Peyton Randolph, president; Charles Thomson, secretary.] Coloni