“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”

Essential Quotes

“Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner? viz., to be sold or made a slave for all the time of his life?”

“Now, tho they are black, we can not conceive there is more liberty to have them slaves, as it is to have other white ones. There is a saying that we shall doe to all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what generation, descent or colour they are.”

“In Europe there are many oppressed for conscience sake; and here there are those oppressed who are of a black colour.”

“Pray, what thing in the world can be done worse towards us, than if men should rob or steal us away, and sell us for slaves to strange countries; separating husbands from their wives and children. Being now that this is not done in the manner we would be done at therefore we contradict and are against this traffic of men-body.”