It was written by Benjamin Lay and published by Benjamin Franklin, and it advocated for the immediate end of slavery. It was a controversial and strongly worded book.
All slave keepers that keep the innocent in bondage apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure and holy Christian religion of what congregation forever, but especially in their ministers by whose e...
— Episode: 338 - Abolitionist Benjamin Lay
Episode: 338 - Abolitionist Benjamin Lay
It was written by Benjamin Lay and published by Benjamin Franklin, and it advocated for the immediate end of slavery. It was a controversial and strongly worded book.
All slave keepers that keep the innocent in bondage apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure and holy Christian religion of what congregation forever, but especially in their ministers by whose example, the filthy leprosy and apostasy is spread far and near.
It is a notorious sin for which many of the true friends of Christ and his pure truth called Quakers has been for many years and are still concerned to write and bear testimony against as a practice of- Shut up. I mean-
...and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth or can be declared by men of angels and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America.
Slaves kept for their glory and pride to wait on them amongst their proud, lazy, dainty, tyrannical, gluttonous, drunken, debauched visitors, the scum of the infernal pit, a little worse than the same that comes off their sugar when it is boiling, which is composed of grease, dirt, dung, and other filthiness, as it may be limbs, bowels, and excrements of the poor slaves and beasts and other matters.
The Quakers were worried some people would think the book was church sanctioned. So they three times published an official notice in the Pennsylvania Gazette saying they had nothing to do with it.