Following are links to information about special exhibits, commemorations, or documents from Quaker history.
- Protest Against Slavery: Text of the 1688 document in which Friends in Germantown, Pennsylvania, expressed the first formal objection to the practice of slavery by European settlers in the New World.
- Petition on Behalf of Conscientious Objectors to War: Text of the 1810 memorial and petition from Virginia Yearly Meeting of Friends to the state legislature of Virginia.
- Advices on Conscription and War: Text of a 1948 statement from a Friends gathering in Richmond, Indiana, believed to have been endorsed by more Quaker bodies than any other document.
- Links to other documents from Quaker history can be found at our resources page.