Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
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Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society
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Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society
Pennsylvanischer Anti-Sclaverei-Gesellschaft
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Pennsylvanischer Anti-Sclaverei-Gesellschaft
State Anti-Slavery Society (Pa.)
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Founded in 1837, the Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society was formed to "promote, by peaceful and Christian means, the emancipation of the enslaved, and the universal extension of the free principles inculcated in the Gospel of Love, and reiterated in the Bill of Rights of Pennsylvania." The Pennsylvania Society was an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Members included Robert Purvis, Lindley Coates, James Mott, Mary Grew, Haworth Wetherald, Sarah Pugh, Edward M. Davis, Lucretia Mott, Benjamin C. Bacon, J. Lidden Pennock, Isaac Winslow, J. M. McKim, Charles M. Burleigh, and Mahlon B. Linton, among others.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/152519751
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