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AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ABOLITION OF
SLAVERY, AND THE RELIEF OF FREE NEGROES
UNLAWFULLY HELD IN BONDAGE
PHILADELPHIA, 9 November, 1780.
It is with peculiar satisfaction we assure the
friends of humanity, that, in prosecuting the design
of our association, our endeavors have proved successful
 far beyond our most sanguine expectations.

Encouraged by this success, and by the daily progress
 of that luminous and benign spirit of liberty,
which is diffusing itself throughout the world, and
humbly hoping for the continuance of the divine
blessing on our labors, we have ventured to make an
important addition to our original plan, and do
therefore earnestly solicit the support and assistance
of all who can feel the tender emotions of sympathy
and compassion, or relish the exalted pleasure of
beneficence.
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human
nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed

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