Part of the path to reparations is critically examining the history of white supremacy in the groups to which we belong. As an example, the author examines her own faith group, the Quakers. We think of Quakers as abolitionists. What we don’t usually know is that the Society of Friends had a hundred years of failing to successfully grapple with slavery. How did a religious group committed to peace, equality, and simplicity rationalize their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade for a hundred years before becoming abolitionists in 1776? This is a story of white hypocrisy and complicity, common to many groups. Moving from Barbados to Pennsylvania (from 1658 to 1776) tracing a branch of her family, the author addresses the mechanics of hypocrisy and complicity regarding slavery and white supremacy. Quakers’ willingness to create wealth from human trafficking and enslaving slowed the advent of the international abolition movement by a hundred years. All major longstanding religious denominations and civil groups have their own history with respect to chattel slavery, Indian genocide, Jim Crow era injustices, and/or governmental practices that privileged white people. Start to look into the history regarding these issues in the groups of which you are a member.