The Quaker _________ launched the first antislavery movement in 1754 when he condemned the institution on humanitarian and religious terms.
A) Benjamin Franklin.
B) John Dickinson.
C) John Woolman.
D) William Penn.

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John Woolman, a Quaker, was the first to publicly denounce slavery on religious and moral grounds in 1754. Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, and William Penn were also Quakers, but they were not the first to initiate the antislavery movement.

The Quaker _________ Launched the First Antislavery Movement in 1754