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1676 - George Fox Pamphlet - Gospel Family Order - Title page of Gospel Family Order. After visiting Barbados in 1671 he later wrote that slaves should be better treated, and pointed out that the slave-owners would not like it if they were treated so cruelly. But he didn't go so far as to condemn slave holding. This was later published as Gospel Fa...

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1676 - George Fox Pamphlet - Gospel Family Order

Title page of Gospel Family Order. After visiting Barbados in 1671 he later wrote that slaves should be better treated, and pointed out that the slave-owners would not like it if they were treated so cruelly. But he didn't go so far as to condemn slave holding. This was later published as Gospel Family-Order, Being a Short Discourse Concerning the Ordering of Families, both of Whites, Blacks and Indians (1676).

Box 29/16
With kind permission of 'The Library of the Religious Society of Friends'.

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17th Jan 2008

Diane Earl

Unique Id: 77434

Subjects: History, Citizenship
Key Stages: KS2, KS3, KS4, KS4+
Learning Groups: Teachers, Parents, Pupils, Others

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