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The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

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Quakers, evangelical Christians, and Enlightenment thinkers criticized the slave trade and slaveholding. Two dozen men founded an anti-slavery society in Philadelphia in 1775. The group grew and reorganized to promote the abolition of slavery in 1784. They adopted this constitution in 1787. They worried that the U.S. Constitution’s fugitive slave clause already endangered free people of color.
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