Quakers

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/2/2022
  

  How 18th C. Quakers Led a Sugar Boycott Against Slavery

  by Julie L. Holcomb

  "In the 1780s, British and American Quakers launched an extensive and unprecedented propaganda campaign against slavery and slave-labor products."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/22/19
  

  It’s time to get rid of reform schools

  by Amber Armstrong

  We need to seize the opportunity to rethink our juvenile justice system.

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• SOURCE: Philly.com
  5-21-18
  

  At Quaker library, a grim find: Native American remains in display case

  A library representative said that she was shocked by the find — and that the Quakers will offer to return the remains, to conduct a burial, or take any action that Indian leaders may desire.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-12-17
  

  In a new book Marcus Rediker draws attention to an 18th century ultraradical hunchback dwarf

  You never hard of him. You should. His name was Benjamin Lay and he pushed Quakers to adopt abolitionism.