Richmond (VA) Friends Meeting

Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Robert Pleasants

by | Dec 18, 1800 | History - Quaker, History - RFM

Robert Pleasants, who was born at Curles in Henrico County, Virginia in 1723 and died in 1801, was one Virginia’s most noted Quaker abolitionists. As one of the founders of the Virginia Abolition Society in 1790, he served as president. In 1782 he successfully lobbied...