Att: Tom Hill and any other Quaker Historian: Last night I watched the DVD "Traces of the Trade," a story of the DeWolf Family of Bristol, RI, who brought 10,000 Africans to this country for purposes of enslavement, even after slavery was outlawed. The family have traditionally been Episcopalians, One of the female Priests was filmed, in a discussion, saying that it was not only Episcopalians who were complicit in continuing slavery, but Presbyterians, some other Protestant sects, and Quakers. I have read the records of the Catawissa Meetings in Northumberland County, PA (now Columbia County) where the Meeting sent Friends out to speak to Farmers about either getting rid of their slave (most Northern families only had one to the most three slaves), or risk being sent out of the Meeting. Some did, some left the Society. What I am wondering is, are there articles, books, records of this happening which show that, indeed, Friends did some actions that sustained slavery? The DVD explained that there were many ways that the North was complicit in the continuation of slavery: ordinary people used sugar that was raised in Cuba by slave labor; ordinary folks bought shares in slave ships and profited greatly, even with one to three shares; laborers made the barrels that were used to transfer the rum to African and was used as the payment of human beings who would be brought to the US. Massachusetts made the ships used in the slave trade; and many, many folks just went ahead and profited in privileged ways that supported the slave trade. I would like to read about this especially directed to the Society of Friends and their role in not speaking up forcefully enough. Sincerely, Cheryl