[SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] &
FOWLER (Robert).
The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting held in London,
A rare, late-eighteenth century annual report by the Society of Friends. The place of publication is suggested by Evans.
“We have this year received several epistles from our Friends of the Yearly Meetings of North and South Carolina and Georgia, of Virginia, of Pennsylvania, of New York, and of New England … The inhabitants of the Continent, dwelling in fertile regions once possessed by different tribes of the Indian natives, are doubtless bound to regard them with benevolence: accordingly, we find our Friends engaged in an undertaking to furnish them with some of the comforts of civilian life. A fund is raising to supply the expense of instructing them in agriculture, in mechanick arts, and in some useful branches of learning.”
“Respecting the Slave Trade, though we have no good tidings to proclaim, we feel unwilling to pass over it in silence. As a body, we have been among the foremost to expose its turpitude; and, although it doth not appear at present tobe our duty to take any publick step as the advocates of this degraded class of our fellow creatures, we still continue to view the commerce with unremitting abhorrence …”
Evans, 30456.
