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

  • Written by Julie L. Holcomb, Associate Professor of Museum Studies, Baylor University
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slaveryEnglish Quakers on a Barbados plantation.Image courtesy of New York Public Library

Buying items that are fair trade, organic, locally made or cruelty-free are some of the ways in which consumers today seek to align their economic habits with their spiritual and ethical views. For 18th-century Quakers, it led them to abstain from sugar and other...

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