"La Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, connue sous le nom de Pennsylvania Abolition Society, est la premi\u00E8re soci\u00E9t\u00E9 antiesclavagiste du monde et de l'Am\u00E9rique du Nord, sous l'impulsion de l'abolitionniste Antoine Benezet, elle fut fond\u00E9e par des Quakers \u00E0 Philadelphie le 14 avril 1775, soit un an avant la d\u00E9claration d'ind\u00E9pendance des \u00C9tats-Unis, elle avait pour objectif d'abolir l'esclavage aux \u00C9tats-Unis. Elle constitue encore un groupe de d\u00E9fense contre le racisme."@fr . "Ar an 14 Aibre\u00E1n 1775, buna\u00EDodh an Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. n\u00F3 mar at\u00E1 aithne air inniu, an Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Buna\u00EDodh an cumann sa Rising Sun Tavern i bhFilideilfia. Bh\u00ED an ch\u00E9ad ghr\u00FApa a bh\u00ED i mbun feachtais ar son cheal\u00FA na scl\u00E1bha\u00EDochta ar fud na gcr\u00EDocha as a ndearnadh St\u00E1it Aontaithe Mheirice\u00E1 ina dhiaidh sin."@ga . . . . . . . . "Pennsylvania Abolition Society"@fr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Pennsylvania Abolition Society"@ga . . . . . . . . . "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and held four meetings. Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, that is, members of the Religious Society of Friends, a branch of Christianity notable in the early history of Pennsylvania. In 1984 when the Society was revived, a Pennsylvania State Historical Marker was placed on Philadelphia's Front Street below Chestnut Street, at the site of its original offices."@en . . . "4904"^^ . . . "1112295157"^^ . . . . "1285973"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "La Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race, connue sous le nom de Pennsylvania Abolition Society, est la premi\u00E8re soci\u00E9t\u00E9 antiesclavagiste du monde et de l'Am\u00E9rique du Nord, sous l'impulsion de l'abolitionniste Antoine Benezet, elle fut fond\u00E9e par des Quakers \u00E0 Philadelphie le 14 avril 1775, soit un an avant la d\u00E9claration d'ind\u00E9pendance des \u00C9tats-Unis, elle avait pour objectif d'abolir l'esclavage aux \u00C9tats-Unis. Elle constitue encore un groupe de d\u00E9fense contre le racisme."@fr . . "Pennsylvania Abolition Society"@en . . . . . . . "Ar an 14 Aibre\u00E1n 1775, buna\u00EDodh an Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. n\u00F3 mar at\u00E1 aithne air inniu, an Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Buna\u00EDodh an cumann sa Rising Sun Tavern i bhFilideilfia. Bh\u00ED an ch\u00E9ad ghr\u00FApa a bh\u00ED i mbun feachtais ar son cheal\u00FA na scl\u00E1bha\u00EDochta ar fud na gcr\u00EDocha as a ndearnadh St\u00E1it Aontaithe Mheirice\u00E1 ina dhiaidh sin."@ga . . . . . . "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and held four meetings. Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, that is, members of the Religious Society of Friends, a branch of Christianity notable in the early history of Pennsylvania. It was reorganized in 1784 as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, (better known as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society) and was incorporated in 1789. At some point after 1785, Benjamin Franklin was elected as the organization's president. The society asked him to bring the matter of slavery to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He petitioned the U.S Congress in 1790 to ban slavery. The Pennsylvania Abolition (or Abolitionist) Society, which had members and leaders of both races, became a model for anti-slavery organizations in other states during the antebellum years. Prominent African-American members included Robert Purvis, who was admitted in 1842 as the Society's first Black member. In 1984 when the Society was revived, a Pennsylvania State Historical Marker was placed on Philadelphia's Front Street below Chestnut Street, at the site of its original offices. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society still exists, dedicated to the cause of combating racism. The oldest abolitionist organization in the United States, since the late twentieth century, it has worked to improve issues of criminal justice and the over-representation of African Americans in prison, reduction in harsh sentencing laws, and improving economic and environmental justice."@en . . . .