1806 AMERICAN SLAVERY LANDMARK. For the First Time, American Christians Disciplined for Owning Slaves Puritan would be sold afterward should

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1806 AMERICAN SLAVERY LANDMARK. For the First Time, American Christians Disciplined for Owning Slaves Puritan would be sold afterward shouldThe landmark 1806 Rules of Discipline represents the first comprehensive printed codification of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's anti slavery principles, a formal, bound statement of Quaker law that had banned slaveholding outright. In 1754, the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting and the Yearly Meeting published a paper declaring slavery a sin, and in 1758 passed a minute denouncing engagement with the slave trade. Individual Friends continued to