Thank you for bringing attention to this important history. The presentation is legitimate. For those who are interested in the root of this transformation, part of the answer is in the activity of John Woolman, who lived in New Jersey. His activism is well known, but his success is not. Woolman made multiple trips to Talbot County Maryland. The anti-slavery sentiment caught on there. Quakers at the Third Haven Meeting decided to purge slavery among members of their meeting in 1767. From there the sentiment spread to Quakers throughout Maryland and into Delaware. It spread among Methodists in Delaware. Thousands of slaves on the Delmarva were manumitted prior to the first census in 1790. Pennsylvania Quakers were inspired and communicated with the Berry brothers of Talbot Co. MD and Warner Mifflin of Kent Co. DE.
Thank you for bringing attention to this important history. The presentation is legitimate. For those who are interested in the root of this transformation, part of the answer is in the activity of John Woolman, who lived in New Jersey. His activism is well known, but his success is not. Woolman made multiple trips to Talbot County Maryland. The anti-slavery sentiment caught on there. Quakers at the Third Haven Meeting decided to purge slavery among members of their meeting in 1767. From there the sentiment spread to Quakers throughout Maryland and into Delaware. It spread among Methodists in Delaware. Thousands of slaves on the Delmarva were manumitted prior to the first census in 1790. Pennsylvania Quakers were inspired and communicated with the Berry brothers of Talbot Co. MD and Warner Mifflin of Kent Co. DE.
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