Did you see last week's article on the Black men and women who challenged colonial Quakers to acknowledge the sinfulness of participating in the slave economy? Here's the author, @jimfussell.bsky.social, sharing the story of two enslaved women for whom angry words were not enough.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.