1 Jan 1688 Jahr - Germantown Petition against Slavery

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In 1688, four German-Dutch Quaker men presented what would be known as the Germantown protest in a monthly local meeting in Pennsylvania. It was not a public, but a written protest in form of a petition with demands to end slavery. Their demand was based on the Christian belief that "each human is of unique worth". This document was one of the first formal documents to denounce the institution of slavery on moral grounds. The immediate response by other people was not great and a gathering in a yearly meeting in Pennsylvania would reject the petition. Although there was no instant effect, the petition displayed the hypocrisy of enslavement as slavery was a direct violation of the Golden Rule, and called out other Quakers practicing slavery.

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