| | | Author: | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Book of Discipline
| | | | Dates: | 1719 (1820) | | | | Abstract: | The manuscript contains the church's position on marriage, smoking, Native Americans, African Americans, backsliding, etc. It entreats church members not to participate in the slave trade, and that if members have slaves, that they treat them "with humanity and in a Christain manner." | | | | Call #: | Mss.289.6.So1 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume(s) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | African American | Church records | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Indians of North America | Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829 | Miscellaneous | Native America | Philadelphia History | Quakers -- Pennsylvania | Religion | Religion, religious organizations | Slavery -- Pennsylvania. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Society of Friends -- Doctrines. | |
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