Christopher Brown

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We don't really agree that it's against the religious witness.

It never has been.

And they're slow to accept that.

The story in England is really interesting because obviously the Society of Friends, the

You know, the largest number are in London, and that's where in some ways the power of the Society of Friends lies in the London yearly meeting.

Some very, very wealthy Quakers.

And they basically take the position of, hey, great, good for you.

We're really pleased that you've decided to make slaveholding not part of the religious.

There's hardly any slaveholding in England, right?

So it's very easy to favor something that has no real cost to you.

This also involves giving up slave trading.

There were some Quaker merchants who had been involved in the slave trade, but for the most part, not terribly important.

And it was easy for them not to, you know, to withdraw themselves from it.

Quakers in England start getting nervous when American Quakers say, great, well, I'm glad you agree with us.

Will you please go visit your friends in Parliament and tell them that they should abolish the slave trade?

And the very wealthy and sometimes politically connected Quakers say, there's no way we're going to do that.

We're not going to draw attention to ourselves.

We're not going to court controversy by trying to have the powers that be legislate against an institution that's fundamental to the empire.

So there's a big jump from witness within the Society of Friends to carrying the witness outside of the Society of Friends.

And

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