sentences:  Washington was not impressed by what Dorothy Twohiga former editor-in-chief of The Washington Papersdescribed as the "imperious demands" and "evangelical piety" of Quaker efforts to advance abolition, and in 1786 he complained about their "tamper[ing] with & seduc[ing]" slaves who "are happy & content to remain with their present masters".Only the most radical of abolitionists called for immediate emancipation.The disruption to the labor market and the care of the elderly and infirm would have created enormous problems.