The first Quaker group in Britain to issue a formal apology …

For their historic involvement in the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of African people.

 

English Quakers on a tobacco plantation in Barbados (Engelse Quakers en tabak planters aende Barbados) – From The New York Public Library

As reported in Quakers in Britain: 

“Lancashire Quakers have become the first in Britain to issue a formal apology for their historic involvement in the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of African people.

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