The literature of the time began to reflect primitive peoples as the embodiment of lost human virtues and morals. That idea began to expand some of the minds of both the Europeans and the people of the Americas making them think that they had robbed primitive peoples innocence. The religious development that began to question slavery started with the Quakers who after the Seven Years' War began to believe the evil that had started to mess with the world was because of slavery. To combat the evil the Quakers began to publish works about the evils of slavery and how it ruined society. The last and most important development that led people to question slavery came from the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment writers, while they didn't question
