(ABOLITION SOCIETIES)

(ABOLITION SOCIETIES). Minutes of the Proceedings of the Fourth Convention from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia, on the Third Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Seven, ind Continued, by Adjournments, until the Ninth Day of the Same

1797. 1st ed. 59pp. Disbound. A very good, clean copy.

Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery was the first national based anti-slavery organization. This convention condemned efforts by American to supply foreign countries with slaves, ekina total abolition of the trade. However, it also had a paternal attitude towards formerly enslaved people, urging them to avoid gaming in all its varied forms" and to attend the schools and places of worship" that the Convention established for them.

From Catalog II

The annual conventions of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, which began meeting in 1794, produced a documentary record that is among the most important archival traces of the early abolitionist movement. Rush participated in the Pennsylvania delegation's work and corresponded with antislavery activists across the country. These documents place his commitment in its institutional context: not a solitary moral position but an organized, sustained campaign that Franklin helped found and Rush helped maintain through the first decades of the nineteenth century.