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1 Statements in Relation to the Proceedings of Friends in England in Aid of the Efforts for the Abolition of Slavery 1 (1837)

handle is hein.slavery/strpfeg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Statements in relation to thle proceedings of Friends in England in aid of the elorts for the Abolition of Slavery; also, some facts respecting the measures taken by Members of said Society in England and America, for promoting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery. The following article is from the ' Friendly Visitant,' of fourth month, 1837, a periodical published by Joseph Tallcot, a member of the Society of Friends, of Skaneateles, N. Y. It is commended to the serious consideration of members of the Society in this country QUERIES IN RELATION TO SLAVERY. It appearing by the epistles from the Yeqrly leeting of Lon- don, that Friends in that country have taken an active part in the late successful e forts for the purpose of abolishing Slavery in the British Government, and the editor being desirous of knowing some particulars, proposed several queriesto an intelligent friend from that countiy, to which the foll'owing answers are received, and are doubtless correct DEAR FRIEND, The three queries of thy propoundin, are suflicient to afford matter, by way of reply, to fill a volume; but as I expect thou preferest concise answers, will endeavor to compress answers as much as may be consistent with propriety. Query lst.-What were the measures pursued by Friends in England, in endeavoring to abolish the Slave trade and Slavery ? Perhaps it may be as well to divide this question into two parts; and first, as to what the Society of Friends did in its collective ca- pacity. It appears the Yearly Meeting's first minute on this suject, was 110 years back, and in its annual printed epistle, P--A ... A -ifk --i-i- f- fk I i--if,, f lli-i f ki--

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