Christopher Brown
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That's for other people.
And once returning to the place of social status and privilege, they return back to their rightful place of being able to trade other people.
It's not like that in the Americas because race operates very differently.
And you can't escape the stain of being of enslaved background, even if you are free.
Yeah, I mean, you can find individuals in most of the colonies in what becomes New York and Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, where there are kind of isolated statements that have come down to us about...
You know, this seems immoral.
It seems like it's questionable from the standpoint of our faith.
But it's Quakers, it's a society of friends who are really the first community that question the very moral basis of slaveholding in a consistent way.
And it's important to say, though, that Quakers were slaveholders and slave traders, even though they were having these discussions amongst themselves as early as the late 17th century in the 1680s, 1690s.
So it really, in some ways, many of us who write on this subject find the seeds of the movement, although I'm hesitant about that metaphor, the seeds of the movement in Quakers in the Society of Friends.
Yeah.
Was that a pivotal moment?
Yeah, it begins as a kind of dissenting group.
within the Society of Friends, who take the position that the violence that slavery requires goes against our pacifistic values, that the wealth that slavery enables contradicts our witness on behalf of simplicity, that the pride that the control of other people
that slavery allows conflicts with the values that we say we place on humility.
And Quakers are unusual because they don't have essentially a ministry, a priesthood, because anyone can witness, express religious witness.
It meant that those dissenters
had a voice within the Society of Friends in terms of challenging the broader majority.
And they couldn't be silenced in the way, like, that's not orthodox.
That's not, you know, those are not our beliefs.
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