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Stephen Hopkins

governor of Rhode Island

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association with Quakers

  • George Fox preaching
    In Society of Friends: The age of quietism

    …it thoroughly; in Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins, who was governor nine times, was disowned because he would not free the one enslaved person he owned. In 1790 a Quaker delegation, armed with a petition written and signed by Benjamin Franklin, appealed to the U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery.

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