1796 FIRST ABOLITIONIST SOCIETY IN AMERICA. Minutes of the Third Convention of Abolition Societies in Philadelphia. Jonathan Edwards Bricnkerhoff

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1796 FIRST ABOLITIONIST SOCIETY IN AMERICA. Minutes of the Third Convention of Abolition Societies in Philadelphia. Jonathan Edwards BricnkerhoffBy 1796, the delegates (primarily Quakers and elite reformers like Benjamin Rush and Jonathan Edwards Jr.) had refined their strategy and become more organized and sophisticated in their approach. The significance of this specific year is found in its shift from broad moralizing to highly specific legal intervention. Much of the 1796 convention was preoccupied with the fallout of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. The Minutes record the delegates'