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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3)

INTRODUCTION
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The print alluded to was therefore probably hung up as the pleasing record of a transaction, so highly honourable to the principles of the society; where knowledge took no advantage of ignorance, but where she associated herself with justice, that she might preserve the balance equal.

"This is the only treaty," says a celebrated writer, "between the Indians and the Christians, that was never ratified by an oath, and was never broken." [Footnote 37: The Indians denominated Penn, brother Onas, which means in their language a pen, and respect the Quakers as his descendants.] The second was a print of a slave-ship, published a few years ago, when the circumstances of the slave-trade became a subject of national inquiry.

In this the oppressed Africans are represented, as stowed in different parts according to the number transported and to the scale of the dimensions of the vessel.

This subject could not be indifferent to those, who had exerted themselves as a body for the annihilation of this inhuman traffic.

The print, however, was not hung up by the Quakers, either as a monument of what they had done themselves, or as a stimulus to farther exertion on the same subject, but, I believe, from the pure motive of exciting benevolence; of exciting the attention of those, who should come into their houses, to the case of the injured Africans, and of procuring sympathy in their favour.
The third contained a plan of the building of Ackworth-school.


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