Quakers were influential in recognizing slavery and slave trade activity as a leading moral concern within their own religious institutions, as many of their members practiced the institution of slavery or involved in the slave trade. Both Quakers and slaveholders supported the idea that freedmen should be settled in Africa because it would help them to reconstruct a better life. Secondly, it would separate them from the slaves.
Concerned about the Catholic minority in Maryland, Leonard Calvert ordered the Second Lord Baltimore to <span> c. make a law requiring Catholics to practice their faith quietly and privately.</span>
