Note [1236 — Chapter XII
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[1236] After 1719 the records show the opposition of the Yearly Meeting to have been expressed against slavery in general, and no mention is made of Indian slaves, though the records sometimes read: “negroes and other slaves.” For the action of the Yearly Meeting at various times up to the time of the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania in 1780, see Pennsylvania Historical Society Memoirs, i, p. 392 et seq.; Sharpless, A History of Quaker Government in Pennsylvania, ii, p. 224 et seq.; American Society of Church Publications, v. ii, (article by Allen C. Thomas); Michener, A Retrospect of Early Quakerism, etc.; Pennsylvania Magazine of History, xiii, pp. 265 et seq.