Christopher Brown
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We also increasingly, they take the view that to be Quaker means not to be a slaveholder, not to be a slave trader.
Yeah.
But there is tiny fraction of the colonial population.
And so the interesting question you think about filters is how does that internal witness, that collective identity, then get turned outward and directed outward into
to the broader society.
And it's at that moment when that happens that there develops a sort of a broader anti-slavery movement in the British and American world.
Yeah.
No, not alone, but they are really distinctive.
I mean, one other thing I would add is that they believed in what we would call co-education almost from the get-go.
They had women as ministers, as traveling preachers.
If you think about the 17th and 18th century world, this was highly unusual, right?
I mean, they really believed in a kind of equality across sects that no other Christian denomination, you know, in the European or American world believed in.
And I would venture to say it's probably true for most other societies as well, with the exception of maybe some Native American societies.
I mean, it's really, really, really unusual in that regard.
I think what kind of matters in a way is...
Quakers established really strong communities in places where slavery was present, but it wasn't absolutely fundamental to the social order.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, parts of New York and New England.
Slaves were worked in what we come to know as the North from the very beginning of European settlement in those places.
But they never become more than 20% of the population.
In most instances, it's more like 5% or 10%.
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