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Title: Quakers Pussyfooted 88 Years On Freeing Slavery; First Protest Against Slavery Made By Mennonites In 1688
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Source: Main Line Chronicle
Date: 6/26/1969
Folder/Item #: Montgomery County (1) to 1999; 13
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Abstract: Story about the 1708 Peter Bun House which is doomed if the proposed Forests and Water Dam is constructed across the Skippack River; Protests to slavery expressed to the Quaker and Mennonite churches; copies of the protest letters