The Germantown Petition was a protest by American Quaker settlers in Pennsylvania demanding the abolition of slavery, the first formal petition of its kind. It was authored by Francis Daniel Pastorius
The petition was the first American public document to protest slavery. It was also one of the first written public declarations of universal human rights.
Bas-relief portrait of Francis Daniel Pastorius, c. 1897. From the Library of Congress.
Thones Kunders's house at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the 1688 Petition Against Slavery was written. From Jenkins (1915).
The table on which the 1688 Petition Against Slavery was written and signed.
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Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, originally known as simply the Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each ot
1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
…The Germantown Petition was a protest by American Quaker settlers in Pennsylvania demanding the abolition of slavery, the first formal petition of its kind. It was authored by Francis Daniel Pastorius, the…
George Fox, the principal early leader of the Quakers
Race Street Friends Meeting House, Race Street west of Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HABS PA 6687 13
George Fox, a leading early Quaker
James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader, being pilloried and whipped