An edition of All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage, apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion (1738)

All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage, apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion

of what congregation so ever; but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near; it is a notorious sin, which many of the true Friends of Christ, and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years, and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against; as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government, beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America. The leaders of the people cause them to err.

By Benjamin Lay