Quakers . . . forbid any act that acknowledged
the right of slavery. Quaker meetings in western
New York advised [Quakers] not to use any
product â€" no cotton cloth, no white sugar â€"
made with the unpaid labor of slaves. Good
Quakers used maple sugar in their coffee.
- Christopher Densmore, Historian
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