Germantown Quaker protest against slavery / gerret hendericks, derick up de graeff, Francis daniell Pastorius, Abraham up den graef. 1688.

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Germantown Quaker protest against slavery / gerret hendericks, derick up de graeff, Francis daniell Pastorius, Abraham up den graef. 1688.

The text of this protest against the trafficking of human beings asks such questions as to whether one person may hold another as slave, likening slavery to the purchase of stolen goods and a sin, and objects to the notion that holding a black slave is any more permissible than holding a white slave.

1 item (1 leaf) : 34 x 22 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7002458

Haverford College Library

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Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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