Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and improving the condition of the African race" held in Philadelphia on October 5, 1819 illuminates the relationship between Columbia Blacks and the majority community. �Four abolition societies met in Philadelphia that day—from New York, Pennsylvania

three times that of the majority population. Such a rate of increase in the Black population was bound to have a detrimental impact on race relations,' especially since the dominant mood in White-Black relations in Colonial Pennsylvania was fear and animosity. Blacks in Colonial Pennsylvania were the

of the same era. At the six- �90/4,1986 215 teenth "American Convention for promoting Abolition of Slavery and im- proving the condition of the African Race" which met on October 5, 1819 in Philadelphia the report presented by the Columbia, Pennsylvania Society is quite informative. After apologizing