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"what led to slavery decreasing in philadelphia after 1750?"

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The Quakers disapproved of the practice on religious grounds, as did Methodists and Baptists. Additionally, religious resistance to slavery and the slave-import taxes led the colony to ban slave imports in 1767.
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