He gave unconditional liberty to his slaves.

He paid all the adults, on their discharge, the sum, which arbitrators, mutually chosen, awarded them.] [Footnote B: Previously to the year 1787, several of the states had made the terms of manumission more easy.] Having given to the reader the history of the third class of forerunners and coadjutors, as it consisted of the Quakers in America, I am now to continue it, as it consisted of an union of these with others on the same continent in the year 1774, in behalf of the African race.

To do this I shall begin with the causes which led to the production of this great event.
And in the first place, as example is more powerful than precept, we cannot suppose that the Quakers could have shown these noble instances of religious principle, without supposing also that individuals of other religious denominations would be morally instructed by them.

They who lived in the neighbourhood where they took place, must have become acquainted with the motives which led to them.

Some of them must at least have praised the action, though they might not themselves have been ripe to follow the example.