Interesting. Thanks. Linda Coats Family History wrote: > Ok, I've gotten a new book called: Quaker in South Carolina, Wateree > and Bush River, Cane Creek, Piney Grove and Charleston Meetings by Rev > Silas Lucas > > on page 21 under Pine Tree Hill chapter - by the way, this little book > is about the Camden early folks including the Quakers, of interest to > some might be the map of Camden with plats on it as early as the > 1740s...a Samuel Wyly shows up in Camden as early as 1761...at any > rate on page 21 of the book: > > The Quaker sect, after planting their settlements, received few > accessions, and were steadily disintegrated or merged by marriage into > other denominations. Another cause of their decline, as expressed by > Colonel Shannon, was the "advancing civilzation of slavery." Says > O'Neall: "In the beginning Friends were slaveowners in South > Carolina. They, however, soon set their faces against it, and in > their peculiar language, they have borne their testimoney against the > institutuion of slavery as irreligious. Such of their members as > refused to emancipate their slaves, when emancipation was practicable > in this state, they disowned. Samuel Kelly, who was the owner of a > slave or slaves in 1762, when he came from Camden, refused to > emanncipate his, on the ground that he had bought and paid for them; > they were therefore his property; and that they were a great deal > better off as his property. He was therefore disowned. His brother's > children manumitted theirs." > > So be careful with blanket statements that Quakers did no own slaves.... > >