The first public protest against slavery in the British North American colonies originated in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood by a group of four men whose shared egalitarian beliefs sparked the beginning of the abolitionist movement.
On April 18, 1688, nearly 90 years before the founding of the United States, a two-page petition was signed in the home of Thones Kunders, a prominent Quaker in the city, declaring that slavery was morally inconsistent with the beliefs of the Peace churches and warned that a violent revolt could ensue. The document is now on display at Haverford College, and the desk it was written on is housed in the Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust.
: Boyz II Men is getting a mural in South Philly just blocks away from where its members met…