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Abolitionism was a historical movement that sought the immediate emancipation of all enslaved people. The origins of abolitionism in what would become the United States of America started way back on February 18, 1688, when the Mennonites of Germantown, Pennsylvania held their monthly meeting and draft a set of resolutions in opposition to slavery, which they call “the traffic of men-body.” Soon after, in April 1688, German and Dutch Quakers in the same town wrote a two-page condemnation of the practice and sent it to the governing bodies of their Quaker church, the Society of Friends. Though the Quaker establishment took no immediate action, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, would eventually initiate the process that finally led to the banning of slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and in the state of Pennsylvania (1780). - See more at: http://sixdaystillsunday.com/an-introduction-to-abolitionism/#sthas...

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