“The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
The most British thing I’ve read this year
The most British thing I’ve read this year
> Quakers are one of the three historic peace churches and therefore have taken seriously the call to loving enemies and the practice of non-violence.
> "Jeremiah Dixon, happening upon a slave driver mercilessly beating a poor black woman. 'Thou must not do that!' he shouted. 'You be damned! Mind your own business,' came the reply. 'If thou doesn't desist, I'll thrash thee!'
> Tall and powerful, Jeremiah seized the slave-driver's whip and gave him a soun thrashing. When he returned to Cockfield, the whip came too, and was one of the Quaker family's treasured possessions."