The 18th century (1700-1799)
- A weighty concern (1717)
...being on this Meeting concerning the importing and keeping of slaves...
- John Woolman's Scruple (1742)
"...I said before my master and the Friend that I believed slave-keeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion..."
- Richard Smith frees a slave (1747)
"I hereby declare that now that my Negro garl Jane ... shall go out free from bondage..." - New England Yearly Meeting labors (1771)
In 1769, New England Yearly Meeting appointed a committee of eleven "leading men of the Society, to collect information, and to visit all slave-holding Friends in the territory of the Yearly Meeting to 'dissuade them from the practice of keeping slave.'
- New England Yearly Meeting decides (1773)
"...we do no more claim property in the human race as we do in the brutes that perish..."
- Warner Mifflin frees all his slaves (1775)
"... said to have been the first man in America to voluntarily give freedom to his bondmen..."