 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1833 - 242 pages
...Quakers, at their yearly meeting for Pennsylvania, held in 1688, perceived its iniquity, and resolved that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery,...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion ; and in consequence of these opinions, had begun to treat their slaves as the children of the Universal... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...been purchased as labourers by the rnrly settlers. Among the quakers it had been agreed, in 1Ü96, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery,...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion. This honourable resolution bad b. en acted on in many instances, and measures were now taken by Penn... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pages
...condition of Negro slaves. The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had already come to a resolution, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion : and following up this honourable declaration, Penn had no difficulty in obtaining for them free admission... | |
 | 1837 - 272 pages
...condition of Negro slaves. The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had already come to a resolution, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion : and following up this honourable declaration, Penn had no difficulty in obtaining for them free admission... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 pages
...condition of Negro slaves. The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had already come to a resolution, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion : and following up this honourable declaration, Penn had no difficulty in obtaining for them free admission... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...condition of Negro slaves. The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had already come to a resolution, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion: and following up this honourable 'declaration, Penn had no difficulty in obtaining for them free admission... | |
 | 1843 - 404 pages
...Quakers at their yearly meeting for Pennsylvania, held in 1688, pereeived its iniquity, and resolved that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery,...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion ; and in consequence of these opinions had begun to treat their slaves as the children of the universal... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...had been resolved, on the suggesttot of emigrants from Crisheim, who had adopted the principles ci William Penn, that the buying, selling, and holding...a similar resolution had been passed at the yearly m«ting of the same religious society for the same province. la consequence of these noble resolutions,... | |
 | 1846 - 386 pages
...condition of Negro slaves. The society of 1 5 Quakers in Pennsylvania had already como to a resolution, that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...inconsistent with the tenets of the Christian religion : and following up this honourable declaration, Penn had no difficulty in obtaining for them free admission... | |
 | Joseph Barker - 1847 - 332 pages
...the traffic in slaves, and at the yearly meeting for Pennsylvania, held in 1688, it had been resolved that the buying, selling, and holding men in slavery...religious Society for the same province. In consequence of these resolutions, the Quakers had begun to treat their slaves in a manner different from that of... | |
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... among the Quakers of Pennsylvania those who, soon after the introduction of them there, began to question the moral licitness of the traffic. Accordingly, at the Yearly Meeting for Pennsylvania, held in 1688, it had been resolved, on the suggestion... 
