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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn

Wasn’t Penn a Quaker who lived peacefully with native Americans? And quakers were antislavery. In fact, Pennsylvania was a haven for freed slaves thanks to the Underground Railroad essentially run by quakers. [/quote]
Penn owned and traded slaves.[/quote]

Not many. And he gave them up when he returned to England—freeing some, selling others. 
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He didn’t enslave many human beings.  He didn’t engage in trading that many slaves.  The lengths you people will go to in order to protect evil.[/quote]

Not trying to protect evil.

Just trying to put it in context.

The guy wasn’t as evil as modern day judgment would suggest.

Generally speaking, Pennsylvania wasn’t heavily involved in slavery and the state was among the first to outlaw slavery thanks to abolition efforts led by the quakers. [/quote]
Well obviously William Penn as an enslaver wasn’t involved in abolition led by people who were his better.  Maybe they deserve commemoration rather than an enslaver like William Penn?[/quote]

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