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Abolitionist Movement
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Founding of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
The world's first anti-slavery society, founded by the Quakers. Memebers included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Rush, -
Gradual Emancipation Act
The first sate to pass this was Pennsylvania. It called for the phasing out of slavery. -
"A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black Man"
Published in London, the first autobiography by a free black man. -
Founding of the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
A joining several state and regional antislavery societies into a national organization to promote abolition. Conference held in Philadelphia. -
First Black Initiated Petition to Congress
Philadelphia free blacks protest North Carolina laws re-enslaving blacks freed during the revolution. -
French defeated in St. Domingue
This ended with the fouding of Haiti as an independednt black nation. This inspired many blacks in America. -
Parliament outlaws British participation in the African Slave Trade
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The US outlaws their participation in the slave trade
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Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of their Labour
Elias Hicks, a Quaker religious leader published this book advocating a consumer boycott of slave produced goods. -
"A Series of Letters by a Man of Color"
A pamphlet published by a black businessman and community leader, James Forten. The purpose of this pamphlet was to protest a law that required the registration of all blacks coming into Pennsylvania. -
"The Genius of Universal Emancipation"
Benjamin Lundy, Quaker, establishes the first American Anti-Slavery newspaper
