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and Christ Jesus, and to belieA'e in him AAdio died for
them and all men, and that this Avould keep them from
rebelling and cutting any person's throat; but if they did
rebel and cut their throats, as the Governor insinuated
they Avould, it Avould be their oavii doing in keeping them
in ignorance and under oppression, in giving them liberty
to be common Avith Avomen like brutes, and on the other
hand in starving them for Avant of meat and clothes con-
venient; thus giving them liberty in that Avhich God
restrained, and restraining them in meat and clothing."*
In 1673, Richard Baxter, and, in 16S0, Morgan God-
wa n. both clergymen, Avrote forcibly against slaATery -j*
From 1GS0 to 1G8S, it does not appear that any public
opposition to slavery Avas made; and, as the last-men¬
tioned year Avas an important era in the history of Penn¬
sylvania, as connected Avith this subject, Ave shall now
proceed to embody the comparatively scanty and imper¬
fect materials Avhich Ave haArc been able to collect. Soon
after the first settlement of Pennsylvania, a few slaves
Avere introduced from the West Indies; and the practice
Avas in some degree tolerated by Friends, as well as the
other earlj" settlers of the proAunce, on the pretence of a
* After the Quakers, " The Moravians, that humble and zealous
sect of Christians, next entered on this desolate field. They sent
missions to the Antilles so early as 1732, and prior to 17s7 had
resident ministers in Antigua, St. Christopher, Barbadoes," &c.
'SlipJiens' Sin eery <//' West Indies, I., 237.) He quotes a planter as
follows: "Since the Moravians have been established at. St. Croix
the treatment of the negroes has been more humane. The masters
are very glad to have them go to the Moravians."—Editor.
"j" Godwyn also published a supplement to his "Negroes' and
Indian.-;' Advocate,"' in the following year.—Editor.
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