Excerpt from A Portraiture of the Christian Profession and Practice of the Society of Friends: Embracing a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Beligious Principles, Political and Civil Economy, and Character of That Religious Society From the year 1787, when I began to devote my labors to the abolition of the Slave-trade, I was thrown frequently into the company of the people called Quakers. These people had been then long unanimous upon this subject. Indeed, they had placed it among the articles of their religious discipline. Their houses were of course open to me in all parts of the kingdom. Hence' I came to a knowledge of their living manners, which no other person, who was not a Qua ker, could have easily obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.