Today's American Minute — Some Anti-Slavery Champions: Quaker Anthony Benezet to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer
Christians pioneered Anti-Slavery Movement: Quaker Anthony Benezet to JQA to Republican Senator Charles Sumner - American Minute with Bill Federer
The original 1856 Republican platform was: "Resolved ... it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy and Slavery."