Julie L. Holcomb

Julie L. Holcomb is an author at Religion News Service.

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How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery

By Julie L. Holcomb — February 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
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