Working from memory here, I think David Brion Davis reports in The Problem
of Slavery...I or II, that the Quaker central meeting in Philadelphia
decided in the mid-1770s that one could not both be a Quaker and
a slaveholder.

Harold S. Forsythe
History & Black Studies
Fairfield University

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> <snip>
> > Regarding the arguments against slavery, Jack Rakove has a thoughtful
> essay in Jan Ellis Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds. _Sally Hemings & Thomas
> Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Univ Press of Va 1999) in
> which he links the rise of the argument against slavery on moral and
> religious grounds to the 19th-century evangelicals - pp. 228 ff. are
> especially pertinent to the question of 21st-century perspectives and our
> "judgment" of past generations. ______ Very thoughtful and informative
> posting, thank you.
>
> Does anyone on list have info as to when the Quakers decided that their
> religion supported an anti-slavery position?  I seem to remember that
> there was a decision but I don't know if it came all at once or spread
> gradually from one locale to another. Do their meeting records deal with
> any church actions taken against members for owning or trading in slaves?
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