At the adoption of the Constitution, their whole body, under the early teaching of George Fox, and by the crowning exertions of Benezet and Woolman, had become an organized band of Abolitionists, penetrated by the conviction that it was unlawful to hold a fellow-man in bondage.
Sumner highlights the Quakers' early abolitionist stance influenced by key figures in history.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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