The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
date: label: date made
content: 1787
label: copyright date
content: 1787
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: made at
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: referenced
content: abolitionism
label: general subject association
content: Anti-Slavery
label: general subject association
content: Books
label: general subject association
content: African American
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content: Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0073.01
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content: 2015.0073
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content: 2015.0073.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm