Quakers & slavery : a divided spirit / Jean R. Soderlund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soderlund, Jean R., 1947- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 411

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Slavery and the church--Society of Friends.

Slavery and the church.

Slavery and the church--United States.

Quakers--Political activity--United States--History.

Quakers.

Quaker abolitionists--United States--History.

Quaker abolitionists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

Quakers and slavery

Quakers and slavery.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

is book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic, and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. Abolitionists Confront the Meeting

CHAPTER 2. Leadership and Control of the Yearly Meeting

CHAPTER 3. Slavery: Temptation and Challenge

CHAPTER 4. The Local Meetings Debate Slavery

CHAPTER 5. Shrewsbury and Chesterfield Meetings

CHAPTER 6. Chester and Philadelphia Meetings

CONCLUSION. The Limits of Quaker Reform

APPENDICES

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-63087-9

0-691-60111-9

1-4008-5777-5

OCLC:

889251887