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The 1688 Germantown Protest: The First American Anti-Slavery Petition
Four German Quakers in a small Pennsylvania town drafted the first known public protest against slavery in the American colonies in 1688. This episode explores the Germantown Mennonite community, the Radical Pietist theology that inspired Francis Daniel Pastorius and his neighbors, the text of their petition to the Monthly Meeting, and the complex web of reasons it was tabled — not rejected outright, but passed up through Quaker hierarchy until it quietly died. We discuss the tension between the Friends' growing antislavery conscience and their economic entanglement with the slave trade…
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