What early role did Philadelphia play in the fight for human rights?
Philadelphia was the birthplace of the abolition movement. On February 18, 1688, Quakers in Germantown protested “traffic in the bodies of men.” In 1775, the nation’s first antislavery organization, the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, was founded with Benjamin Franklin as its president. Source: Booker, Janice L. Philly Firsts. Philadelphia: Camino Books, Inc.
