Southern Quakers and Slavery

Excerpt from Southern Quakers and Slavery: A Study in Institutional HistoryThe in¿uence Of the Quakers in the settlement and growth Of the Southern States has never been sufficiently recognized. They appeared in Virginia soon after their organization; they were in the Carolinas almost with the first settlers; they were considerable in numbers and sub stance; they were well behaved and law-abiding; they maintained friendly relations with the Indians; they were industrious and frugal; they were zealous missionaries, and through their earnest and faithful preaching became, to ward the close Of the seventeenth century, the largest and only organized body Of Dissenters in these colonies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.