"1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery" . "The first anti-slavery statement" . "first protest against slavery in the New World" . "Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery" . "first American anti-slavery protest" . "first petition in the English colonies to abolish slavery" . "petition against the use of slaves" . . . . . "first European protest against slavery in the New World (1688)" . "American antislavery movement" . . "1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery" . . . "First Protest Against Slavery" . . "first organized religious protest against slavery" . "the protest of 1688" .