A weighty concern, 1717
Newport Yearly Meeting
A weighty concern being on this Meeting concerning the importing and keeping of slaves. This Meeting therefore refers it to the consideration of Friends everywhere to waite for ye wisdom of God how to discharge themselves in that weighty affair, and desires it may be brought up from our Monthly and Quarterly Meetings t our next Yearly Meeting, and also yt merchants do write their correspondents in the islands and elsewhere to discourage their sending any more [slaves] in order to be sold by Friends here.