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Quakers and abolition / edited by Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quaker abolitionists--United States--History.
- Quaker abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery and the church--Society of Friends--History.
- Slavery and the church.
- Slavery and the church--United States.
- History.
- Slavery and the church--Society of Friends.
- United States.
- Quaker abolitionists--History.
- Antislavery movements--History.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank
- Part I. Freedom within Quaker discipline: arguments among friends
- "Liberation is coming soon": the radical reformation of Joshua Evans (1731-1798) / Ellen M. Ross
- Why Quakers and slavery? Why not more Quakers? / J. William Frost
- George F. White and Hicksite opposition to the abolitionist movement / Thomas D. Hamm
- "Without the consumers of slave produce there would be no slaves": Quaker women, antislavery activism and free-labor cotton dress in the 1850s / Anna Vaughan Kett
- The spiritual journeys of an abolitionist: Amy Kirby Post, 1802-1889 / Nancy A. Hewitt
- Part II. The scarcity of African Americans in the meetinghouse: racial issues among the Quakers
- Quaker evangelization in early Barbados: forging a path toward the unknowable / Kristen Block
- Anthony Benezet: working the antislavery cause inside and outside of "the society" / Maurice Jackson
- Aim for a free state and settle among Quakers: African-American and Quaker parallel communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / Christopher Densmore
- The Quaker and the colonist: Moses Sheppard, Samuel Ford McGill, and transatlantic antislavery across the color line / Andrew Diemer
- Friend on the American frontier: Charles Pancoast's A Quaker forty-niner and the problem of slavery / James Emmett Ryan
- Part III. Did the rest of the world notice? The Quakers' reputation
- The slave trade, Quakers, and the early days of British abolition / James Walvin
- The Quaker antislavery commitment and how it revolutionized French antislavery through the Crèvecoeur-Brissot friendship, 1782-1789 / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
- Thomas Clarkson's Quaker trilogy: abolitionist narrative as transformative history / Dee E. Andrews and Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner
- The hidden story of Quakers and slavery / Gary B. Nash.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252038266
- 0252038266
- 0252096126
- 9780252096129
- OCLC:
- 861676492
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