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Who wrote petitions to the British parliament and launch a sugar boycott in their effect to abolish slavery

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The Quakers wrote petitions

They were a religious Christian group that advocated abolishing slavery and many other civil rights. Their name originates from the verb "to quake" because they said their knees would quake when god spoke to them.
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