Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Question: Five years after founding Germantown, its settlers wrote the first known protest in the American colonies against what?

Answer: In 1688, Francis Daniel Pastorius and three other Germantown Quakers wrote a petition against slavery, the first protest of its kind by a religious body in the English colonies. Their argument rested on the Golden Rule, and the original document is preserved today at Haverford College.