The Germantown Protest against Slavery
This is the text of a protest published in 1688 by four Quakers, called by Wikipedia “the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.”
This is the text of a protest published in 1688 by four Quakers, called by Wikipedia “the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.”
Lucas Hilty
8 years ago
We received this comment related to the above petition:The image of the bench and desk from the Shippack school [featured on the About page] might be of the desk on which the first anti-slavery petition was written by two Quakers and two Mennonites in 1688. https://www.meetinghouse.info/1688-petition-against-slavery.html. -Peace, Harlan Barnhart