The Pennsylvania Abolition Society

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society was founded on April 14, 1775 at the Rising Sun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the “Society for the Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage.” Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, or members of the Religious Society of Friends, and Thomas Paine and Anthony Benezet were among its founders. Benezet, who was a leading Quaker educator, called the society together two years after he persuaded the Quakers to create the Negro School at Philadelphia. - See more at: http://sixdaystillsunday.com/the-pennsylvania-abolition-society/#st...