+1. Lots of white people understood that slavery was wrong and, of course, so did all of the slaves. Thank you for making this point.
Ted
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Originally Posted by Dewey
The Quakers promoted abolition as early as the 1680s in the colony of Pennsylvania. "Society" is not monolithic. Reasonably assessing the past is an important part of being a discerning person in the present. The only thing dangerous about it is somehow thinking we will be free from future scorn.
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