To Granville Sharp (unpublished)
Philadelphia, June 9, 1787.
Sir,

The Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery and the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, have taken the liberty to request your acceptance of a few copies of their constitution, and the laws of Pennsylvania which relate to one of the objects of their institution.

From a most grateful sense of the zeal and abilities with which you have long and successfully defended the claims of the oppressed Africans, the Society have done themselves the honour of enrolling your name in the number of their corresponding members, and they earnestly request the continuance of your labours in the great object of their institution, for in this business, the friends to humanity in every country are of one nation and religion. I am, in behalf of the Society, &c. &c.

B. Franklin.

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