I am a Quaker and i believe its very important that we know and remember this part of our history as well as the later more general commitment to abolitionism. Some Quakers were also involved in the residential schools which tormented Native Americans. Despite the belief in spiritual equality between the sexes, social equality was not so well recognized. Early Quakerism was less true to it's universalist, egalitarian ideals than it later became. They, were, of course, influenced by the normalized racism, sexism and classism around them but there was ambiguity even early on. As early as 1688, the Germantown Quakers protested slavery. In the 1690s, George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, while holding views typical of his time, told Quaker slave owners in Barbados that ultimately they should free their slaves. The early history of Quakerism has deeply shameful episodes and, yes, they should have done better, but the debate was always there and the movement evolved more quickly than most because the incompatibility of the principles with the practice became too great to ignore.
Cancel culture? Cui Bono? Voltaire admired the Quackers. Ona Judge, a G.Washington slave fled her master, while on a trip to Philadelphia because Pennsylvania was abolitionist i've heared.
@@erichmielkethefourth6878 that came later, long after Billy Penn. The only ones that didn't own any person of any color (as Irish Catholics were held as slaves under the guise of "indentured service") was the Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch (Amish, Mennonites, German Lutherans, German Reformed, and other radicals). It was they, at minimum, called the Quakers hypocrites (despite the Quaker's pushing - at that time - for radical social justice).
I am a Quaker and i believe its very important that we know and remember this part of our history as well as the later more general commitment to abolitionism. Some Quakers were also involved in the residential schools which tormented Native Americans. Despite the belief in spiritual equality between the sexes, social equality was not so well recognized. Early Quakerism was less true to it's universalist, egalitarian ideals than it later became. They, were, of course, influenced by the normalized racism, sexism and classism around them but there was ambiguity even early on. As early as 1688, the Germantown Quakers protested slavery. In the 1690s, George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, while holding views typical of his time, told Quaker slave owners in Barbados that ultimately they should free their slaves. The early history of Quakerism has deeply shameful episodes and, yes, they should have done better, but the debate was always there and the movement evolved more quickly than most because the incompatibility of the principles with the practice became too great to ignore.
Quakers wrote April 18, 1688, “Petition Against Slavery”.
Quakers were doing it for a while but then they stopped and tried to get it abolished
Then they go on with lifting yourself off your own bootstraps
Yes I admire Quaker principles but sadly we fail to live those principles out in practice.
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I don't think any of this was specific to Quakers. Why pick on them?
Blame game
Cancel culture? Cui Bono? Voltaire admired the Quackers. Ona Judge, a G.Washington slave fled her master, while on a trip to Philadelphia because Pennsylvania was abolitionist i've heared.
@@erichmielkethefourth6878 that came later, long after Billy Penn. The only ones that didn't own any person of any color (as Irish Catholics were held as slaves under the guise of "indentured service") was the Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch (Amish, Mennonites, German Lutherans, German Reformed, and other radicals). It was they, at minimum, called the Quakers hypocrites (despite the Quaker's pushing - at that time - for radical social justice).