Official medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society. For general African American research, see a Christine's Genealogy Web Site with many links. Two of them focus on antislavery thought, while the third examines Quaker slave holding practices in Barbados. Quakers throughout Britain were concerned about the morally corrosive effects of buying and using the products of slaves’ labour. Full TV Schedule.

To this end, a group of Quakers, including William Allen and Luke Howard, formed the African Institution. I have written several articles about Quakers and slavery in the seventeenth century. QUAKERS HAVE HAD A GOOD PRESS for their responses to slavery in spite of the pervasive racism within and outside the meeting.¹ Nevertheless, before 1750 and after 1830, a Friend could be disowned for vigorous, public opposition to the meeting’s position on slavery. As part of this group, a range of campaigns involving meetings, posters and speeches were arranged, helping to get the word out and draw attention to the issue. Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries. Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865 following the Civil War. One-third of the original delegates were Quakers, but not all Quakers supported the organization. Playing an influential role in the religious, social and political life of America, Quakers have been prominent in anti-slavery, civil rights and women’s rights movements, and have also been strong advocates for world peace. The 1688 Germantown Protest against Slavery. Quakers and Slavery Pennsylvania For information on early slave owners in Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania, (and a few adjoining areas) see Ann Wiegle's Web Site. In Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, an anti-slavery society founded in 1837 with twenty members, used petitions to call for immediate abolition and built themselves a meeting hall. All three of these articles begin from the premise that Quakers initially accepted slavery, but tried to reform it. Neither Quakerism nor slavery remained the same between the 1670s and 1865.

Quakers and Slavery. Slaves are unable to withdraw from this arrangement and work with little to no pay. Quakers were the driving force of the anti-slavery movement in the very early days. After the ending of the English slave trade in 1807, the focus shifted to remedying the evil effects that slavery had produced. Show Schedule. Lancaster Quakers’ involvement in the abolition movement may have gone beyond supporting political campaigns to abolish slavery. Meanwhile, the Anti-Slavery Society had its first meeting back in the UK which helped to bring together Quakers and Anglicans.

About the Show. Slavery is a system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy, and sell other individuals as a form of property. When the Quakers first came to Pennsylvania they owned slaves along with other Pennsylvania residents.