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 anwer of Fox to the charge that the Quakers "taught the negroes to rebel," hows very clearly that anti-lavery doctrines were no part of the Quaker creed at that time. Ibid., pp. 147–9. Compare 454. See alo Ralph Sandiford's Brief Examination, etc., Preface.

And for half a century afterwards "that people were as greedy as any Body in keeping Negroes for their Gain," o as to induce the belief that they "approved of it as a People with one conent unanimouly." Lay, 84. Ralph Sandiford, in 1729, in his "Brief Examination," etc., thus bemoaned the fact, "that it hath defaced the preent Dipenation."

"Had the Friends tood clear of this Practice, that it might have been anwered to the Traders in Slaves that there is a People called Quakers in Pennylvania that will not own this practice in Word or Deed, then would they have been a burning and a hining Light to thee poor Heathen, and a Precedent to the Nations throughout the Univere which might have brought them to have een the Evil of it in themelves, and glorifyed the Lord on our Behalf, and like the Queen of the Eat, to have admired the Glory and Beauty of the Church of God. But intead thereof, the tender eed in the Honet-hearted is under Suffering, to ee both Elders and Miniters as it were cloathed with it, and their offspring after them filling up the Meaure of their Parents' Iniquity; which may be uffered till uch Time that Recompence from Him that is jut to all his Creatures opens that Eye the god of this World has blinded. Though I would not be undertood to pervert the Order of the Body, which conits of Servants and Maters, and the