Debating Slavery
“To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States of America” (Philadelphia, 1799)
The 1799 pamphlet found with the attic papers, "To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States of America," was published by a Quaker group in Philadelphia. “No person can retain his right of membership with us who buys, sells, or holds slaves,” it states, calling upon other Americans to “unite … in this good cause.”
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