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"This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. Contributors from a range of disciplines, nations, and faith backgrounds show how Quakers often disagreed with one another and the large...

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Otros Autores: Plank, Geoffrey Gilbert, 1960- (Editor ), Carey, Brycchan, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery and the church > Society of Friends.
Slavery and the church.
Quaker abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Histoire.
Abolitionnistes quakers > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Abolitionnistes quakers > États-Unis > Histoire.
Antislavery movements > History.
Quaker abolitionists > History.
Slavery and the church > United States.
Slavery and the church > Society of Friends > History.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Quaker abolitionists > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Crevecoeur-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.

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