1787 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & SLAVERY. Constitution of Oldest Abolitionist Society in America w/ Franklin as President. Leather at 17 years of age

at 17 years of age

5 inches in diameter appx

boldly signed in the lower left

Who could have thought that while we were complaining of oppression

1787 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN & SLAVERY. Constitution of Oldest Abolitionist Society in America w/ Franklin as President. Leather at 17 years of ageVery rare and desirable first edition and first state [with "enlarged" spelled incorrectly] of the Constitution of the first Anti Slavery Society in America. The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery was founded in 1774 by Anthony Benezet. Although founded before the American Revolution, they were almost immediately forced to suspended activities due to the demands of the War. It was revived in the immediate aftermath of the