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The Attitude of the Society of Friends toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Particularly in Relation to its Own Members

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

Allen Clapp Thomas
Allen Clapp Thomas
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Haverford College.
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The Society of Friends took its origin in England, and it is therefore natural that slavery did not attract much attention from its members until some of them emigrated to countries where slavery was an established institution. Like the members of other denominations, these seem to have taken slavery as a matter of course, and some fell into the habit of owning slaves themselves, and when slaveholders joined the society they retained their slaves.

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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 8 , January 1896 , pp. 263 - 299
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Copyright © American Society for Church History 1896

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