{"id":4101,"date":"2026-04-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:29:36","slug":"first-abolitionist-society-formed-in-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"First Abolitionist Society Formed in 1775"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1775<\/strong>. This group was America\u2019s first abolition society. Some of the early members were Thomas Paine, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Renamed the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the group still exists, working for racial justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1775. This group was America\u2019s first abolition society. Some of the early members were Thomas Paine, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Renamed the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the group still exists, working for racial justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5375,5472,1537,2546,2547,60,2548,370,2544,2545],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5375","tag-april-14","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-benjamin-rush","tag-john-greenleaf-whittier","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-abolition-society","tag-philadelphia","tag-the-society-for-the-relief-of-free-negroes-unlawfully-held-in-bondage","tag-thomas-paine","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}