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.
Francis Daniel Pastorius, Garret Hendericks, Derick Op den Graeff, and Abraham Op den Graeff
Purpose
Protest against the institution of slavery.
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The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies. It was drafted by Francis Daniel Pastorius and signed by him and three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) on behalf of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. It was forwarded to the monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings without any action being taken on it. According to John Greenleaf Whittier, the original document was discovered in 1844 by the Philadelphia antiquarian Nathan Kite and published in The Friend (Vol. XVIII. No. 16).
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