Temporarily?
I think he brought the kid back to his hobbit house and made him tea (probably without sugar) and when the parents were exhausted of looking for him, he brought them to him and explained to them the moral of the action.
It was like 1732 and he was a pacifist quaker. I linked a really fun and fairly detailed video about the dude in the thread. This guy was based as fuck. He even went vegan eventually. In the late 1730s! I’d recommend the whole channel, he’s great and knows both history and film making so the slop is top of the line
Could’ve done a Patty Hearst maneuver too, let the kid choose whether he wanted to join the abolitionist movement later on.
Atun-Shei Films, THE BEST history YouTube channel just did a whole video about the guy! He also went vegan later in life
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Quakers are pretty great. Colonisation of North America obviously was a bad thing, but many Quakers were actively opposing from day one the slave trade (before it was abolished back in England) and resisting the genocide of First Nations. And many of them were fleeing active persecution for basically having done similar things back in England. Then Puritan’s and other colonists would lynch the Quakers for sticking to their beliefs.
I love him so much, what a fucking icon
