Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- 1787
- copyright date
- 1787
- ID Number
- 2015.0073.01
- accession number
- 2015.0073
- catalog number
- 2015.0073.01
- Object Name
- pamphlet
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- gray (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- made at
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- abolitionism
- general subject association
- Anti-Slavery
- Books
- African American
- Record ID
- nmah_1693697
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-dea1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
