If the Quakers were anti-slave society...?

Question

why did William Penn (who was a Quaker, and the founder of the Pennsylvania colony) allow slaves to work in Pennsylvania???

Answer 1

Early Quakers in America may have held slaves but they moved against slavery as early as 1696.

Here's proof:

"The Quakers in America had taken action on the subject still earlier than those in England. The Pennsylvanian Quakers advised their members against the trade in 1696; in 1754 they issued to their brethren a strong dissuasive against encouraging it in any manner; in 1774 all persons concerned in the traffic, and in 1776 all slave holders who would not emancipate their slaves, were excluded from membership. The Quakers in the other American provinces followed the lead of their brethren in Pennsylvania."

Answer 2

The Quakers were not 'an anti-slavery society' as such, but rather members of the Quakers, or Society of Friends, were leaders in the abolitionist movement in the UK. At the time of William Penn slavery was not seen as the evil that it was seen as 150 years later. Times are always changing.

Answer 3

I don't think the Quakers were anti-slavery, i just think they were more tolerant of beliefs..