ABSTRACT
A short time before the Yearly meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, made a rule of discipline to disown such members as held slaves and refused to manumit them, a committee was appointed, by the Western Quarterly meeting, to visit all their members, who continued in the practice. This committee consisted of men and women. In pursuance of the directions of the meeting, they called upon all such, and in a friendly manner laid before them the iniquity of the antichristian custom of holding their fellow-men in bondage, except one case. This Friend had but one slave, who was far advanced in years; and it was thought, by most of the committee, that it was imprudent to interfere in the case, as the slave was too old and infirm to support himself by his own labor; and as he was treated kindly, they were of opinion that his situation could not be made more comfortable than it was, and that he probably had no desire for his freedom.
