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, 15:54, April 22, 2007→Slavery in Massachusetts: Actually, it was the Quakers
::: PF Fox, Massachusetts was the source of the abolitionist movement. While you have shown there were a few slaves there, and I have corrected the lecture, the anti-slavery sentiment was stronger in Massachusetts than any other colony.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:43, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::: PF Fox, Massachusetts was the source of the abolitionist movement. While you have shown there were a few slaves there, and I have corrected the lecture, the anti-slavery sentiment was stronger in Massachusetts than any other colony.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:43, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::::Actually, it was Quakers -- a group the Puritans loathed and abused -- who founded the first abolitionist organization in the US, and that was in Philadelphia. Boston was certainly later a focal point for the abolitionist movement, but it's not accurate to call Massachusetts the "source," and I'd very much like to see some backup for the claim that "the anti-slavery sentiment was stronger in Massachusetts than any other colony." Credit for that should probably go to Pennsylvannia. --[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 11:54, 22 April 2007 (EDT)