The "Preamble" and "Articles" of the Free African Society (FAS) provide a succinct portrait of the organization, the first of its kind in Philadelphia, and probably the first in America.

Richard Allen, who was enslaved in Delaware, along with others, developed the Free African Society, a group of Methodists setting itself apart from the American Methodists who enforced racial ...

and attempted to work more closely with the Free African Society in a wide range of social, political and educational activity In 1787, PAS organized local efforts to support the crusade to ban ...