Historical Organization

Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage

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Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage

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Philadelphia antislavery society organizes to aid unlawfully enslaved free people

📅 14 April 1775

The organization formed to assist free Black people illegally held in bondage and later broadened its work against slavery. Its founding preceded the Declaration of Independence and shows abolitionist...