Orange County Friends Meeting
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Santa Ana, California

The Germantown Petition, 1688

The first explicit statement by Quakers condemning slavery appeared even before the Articles of Toleration.

"... 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 this is not done in the manner we would be done at therefore we contradict and are against this traffic of men-body...."

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