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First Protest against Slavery

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Here in 1688, at the home of Tunes Kunders, a group of German Quakers wrote an eloquent protest against slavery. Signed by Pastorius and three others, it preceded by 92 years Pennsylvania’s passage of the nation’s first abolition law.
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