“WORK & BE HAPPY”: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society, circa 1800 Philadelphia Quakers founded the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1775. Quickly they attracted 2,000 members to their program of “improving the Condition of the African Race,” which included schools and jobs. A white Quaker man assists a slave to step out of his chains and shackles, while the implements of agricultural work with their promise of cultivated fields beyond await this newly freed worker. Seal of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Abolition of Slavery [E 441. A58 vol. 15 no. 1 p. 53], Historical Society of Pennsylvania.