![This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.](/assets/img/quote-photos/this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slave-trade-was-blessed-by-all-churches-and.jpg)
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