anſwer of Fox to the charge that the Quakers "taught the negroes to rebel," ſhows very clearly that anti-ſlavery doctrines were no part of the Quaker creed at that time. Ibid., pp. 147–9. Compare 454. See alſo Ralph Sandiford's Brief Examination, etc., Preface.
And for half a century afterwards "that people were as greedy as any Body in keeping Negroes for their Gain," ſo as to induce the belief that they "approved of it as a People with one conſent unanimouſly." Lay, 84. Ralph Sandiford, in 1729, in his "Brief Examination," etc., thus bemoaned the fact, "that it hath defaced the preſent Diſpenſation."
"Had the Friends ſtood clear of this Practice, that it might have been anſwered to the Traders in Slaves that there is a People called Quakers in Pennſylvania that will not own this practice in Word or Deed, then would they have been a burning and a ſhining Light to theſe poor Heathen, and a Precedent to the Nations throughout the Univerſe which might have brought them to have ſeen the Evil of it in themſelves, and glorifyed the Lord on our Behalf, and like the Queen of the Eaſt, to have admired the Glory and Beauty of the Church of God. But inſtead thereof, the tender ſeed in the Honeſt-hearted is under Suffering, to ſee both Elders and Miniſters as it were cloathed with it, and their offspring after them filling up the Meaſure of their Parents' Iniquity; which may be ſuffered till ſuch Time that Recompence from Him that is juſt to all his Creatures opens that Eye the god of this World has blinded. Though I would not be underſtood to pervert the Order of the Body, which conſiſts of Servants and Maſters, and the
