All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage, apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near [electronic resource] : it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America : the leaders of the people caused them to err / written for a general service by him that truly and sincerely desires the present and eternal welfare and happiness of all mankind, all the world over, of all colours, and nations, as his own soul, Benjamin Lay.
1737
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All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage, apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near [electronic resource] : it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America : the leaders of the people caused them to err / written for a general service by him that truly and sincerely desires the present and eternal welfare and happiness of all mankind, all the world over, of all colours, and nations, as his own soul, Benjamin Lay.
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Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759.
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Philadelphia : Printed for the author, 1737.
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English
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1 online resource (271, [6] p.).
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Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.
Errata: [1] p., 2nd count.
Errata: [1] p., 2nd count.
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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
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