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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

2 works

18 February 1688

English

The Germantown Petition Against Slavery

Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Germantown Quakers

Four Quakers ask what right anyone has to buy and keep men as slaves, and whether the golden rule is not as binding for black people as for white.

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