{"id":18855,"date":"2026-08-13T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/?p=18855"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:05:07","slug":"philadelphia-freedom-webinar-on-august-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/philadelphia-freedom-webinar-on-august-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Freedom webinar on August 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us on August 27 at 6:00 for a free webinar discussing the “Free Henry Hypothesis” and Philadelphia Freedom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a link<\/strong><\/a> to the free webinar hosted by the African American Museum in Philadelphia (the AAMP).<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year a historic marker was installed in Philadelphia to honor Miss Dalley\u2019s boarding house, otherwise known as the \u201cConstitution House.\u201d Gouverneur Morris (the \u201cPenman of the Constitution\u201d), Alexander Hamilton (\u201cPublius<\/em>\u201d) and Elbridge Gerry (the \u201cFederal Farmer<\/em>\u201d) boarded with Miss Dalley while attending the Constitutional Convention in 1787. But who else resided with Miss Dalley during the time spanning from the Revolutionary War through the First Federal Congress?<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Regarding Free Henry Hypothesis<\/em> proposes that the Henry who worked for Miss Dalley in 1780 was Henry Stewart. If so, Henry was a colleague of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen and a co-founder and trustee of St. Thomas\u2019 African Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. In the later part of the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century, Henry Stewart would become a leader of the African Free Society, possibly the first organization of its kind in American history.As an emissary of the free African American community in Philadelphia, Henry Stewart traveled to Boston in 1789 to meet with Prince Hall, \u201cthe first Grand Master of Colored Masons in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us on August 27 at 6:00 for a free webinar discussing the “Free Henry Hypothesis” and Philadelphia Freedom Here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18857,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions\/18857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statutesandstories.com\/blog_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}