The Quakers built their society on the principles of civil equality apparent in their anti-slave feelings and their pro-native American relationship with local tribes. Some Quakers went as far as allowing natives to watch their children. ... Throughout American history African Americans had been enslaved and mistreated, thought not to be men but property. ... For years black Americans tolerated their status in American society, but with their insurrection came an end to slavery and oppression. ... The extremely segregated situation between blacks and whites at the time was apparent, even i...

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