This year marks the 335th anniversary of the founding of Germantown, an effort led by Francis Daniel Pastorius. Soon after, Pastorius drafted the first North American petition to abolish slavery.

Francis Pastorius, Germantown, and the First Petition to Abolish Slavery

1688

A Minute Against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting, 1688.

Daniel Pastorius, Garret Henderich, Derick Up den Graeff, and Abraham Up den Graef April 18, 1688

Belmont Abbey, Part Two: A Catholic Response to Post-Reconstruction Southern Culture

Abbot Leo Haid 1876 to present

Christianity and Slavery: The Moravians of North Carolina

1753-1858

Excerpts from Appeal to Christian Women of the South

Angelina Grimke 1836

Hudson, Ohio and Congregationalist Opposition to Slavery

April 17, 2017

Christianity and the Emancipation Proclamation

David Gilmour Blythe February 1, 2018