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How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery

By Julie L. Holcomb, Associate Professor of Museum Studies, Baylor University
Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.The Conversation


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