About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1680 Works, 1680s Architecture, 1680s Books, 1680s Operas, 1680s Plays, 1680s Poems, 1682 Works, 1684 Works, 1687 Works, 1688 Works, 1689 Works, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, Nunnington Hall, Ephraim Hawley House, de Motu Corporum in Gyrum, Dido and Aeneas, Drottningholm Palace, Pachelbel's Canon, 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, Novodevichy Convent, Chateau de Marly, Venus and Adonis, the Hind and the Panther, Venice Preserv'd, Ragley Hall, Armide, Roland, Chateau D'issy, Albion and Albanius, St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham, Phaeton, Absalom and Achitophel, Les Arts Florissants, Chichester's Inn, Bevier House Museum, Acteon, La Descente D'orphee Aux Enfers, Achille et Polyxene, Amadis, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, the Orphan, Pierce House (Dorchester, Massachusetts), Acis et Galatee, San Samuele, Venice, St. John the Baptist Church, Yaroslavl, San Frediano in Cestello, Persee, Deacon John Graves House, King's House, Winchester, Les Plaisirs de Versailles, 1680s in Architecture, General Kyd Stradivarius, Chateau Villette, the Disappointment, Am 738 4to, Proserpine, Declaration of Indulgence, the Emperor of the Moon, Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe. Excerpt: The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies. It was drafted by Francis Daniel Pastorius and signed by him and three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) on behalf of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. It was forwarded to the monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings without any action being taken on it. According to John Greenleaf Whittier, the original document was discovered in 1844 by the Philadelphia antiquarian Nathan Kite and published in The Friend (Vo...
