[African-Americana] Pennsylvania Abolition Society's "Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks", Printed in the "Gazette of the United States"

New York: John Fenno, Saturday, November 28, 1789 (No. LXVI). Printed newspaper. Folio. 4 pp. Disbound; separations along central vertical fold; foxing.

Printed on the front page is the Pennsylvania Abolition Society's (PAS) "Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks". Developed by PAS president Benjamin Franklin and put into motion in conjunction with the Free African Society, the Act established the PAS as the "de facto Ministry of Black Affairs" (Library Company of Philadelphia). Created to assist Philadelphia's Free Black community, the Act established committees that focused on education, safety, employment, as well as on moral and social relations.

Other articles of note include a May 12, 1784 letter from Franklin to Samuel Mather recounting trips he made to Boston over the course of his life, as well as describing the influence Mather's father, Cotton, made on Franklin through his life; dispatches from France on the Revolution, printing that "The King's government may now be supposed to be at an end. In fact, he is the prisoner, not of the nation, but of the people of France..."; a report on the opening of the first session of the judiciary.

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[African-Americana] Pennsylvania Abolition Society's "Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks", Printed in the "Gazette of the United States"

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[African-Americana] Pennsylvania Abolition Society's "Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks", Printed in the "Gazette of the United States"

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