Excerpt from A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of Some Censures, Thrown Upon Them in Some Late Publications
Efir remembered, That on the tw'enty-third Q day ofjanuary, in the ci hteenth year of the Inde pendence of the United States 05 America, Abfalom ]ones and Richard Allen, both of the (aid Difiri�t, have depofited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as authors and p rietors, in the words following, to wit A Narrativ Proceeding: (j tbe Black People, during f�e late awful it} in Philadelphia; if; tbe year 17953 and a Refatation of flame Ceafizreh tbrown upon them in fame late Publicariam. B y 14. 7. If R. A. In conformity to the act of the Congrefs of the United States, intitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by fecuring the co pies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprie tors of fach copies, during the times therein mentioned.
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Absalom Jones was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War.
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