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Quakers and their allies in the abolitionist cause, 1754-1808

Title: Quakers and their allies in the abolitionist cause, 1754-1808 / edited by Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel.
Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2015]

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Description

xi, 206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the cause to abolish slavery in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area (including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware), a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history. -- Adapted from the publisher's web site.

Series Statement

Perspectives on early America

Uniform Title

Perspectives on early America

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel -- 1. Warner Mifflin (1745-98): The Remarkable Life of an Unflinching Abolitionist / Gary B. Nash. -- 2. Sarah Woolman and the Anti-Slavery Family / Geoffrey Plank. -- 3. Friends, Family and Freedom in Colonial Philadelphia: A Black Slave-Owner Settles Her Accounts / Julie Winch. -- 4. "What Shall Be Done with the Negroes?": Anthony Benezet's Legacy: Then and Now / Maurice Jackson. -- 5. Samuel Meredith (1741-1817): American Patriot and Welsh Philanthropist / Richard C. Allen. -- 6. "Come Out of Babylon, My People": John Woolman's (1720-72) Anti-Slavery Theology and the Transatlantic Economy / Jon R. Kershner. 7. Rejecting the Gain of Oppression: Quaker Abstention and the Abolitionist Cause / Julie L. Holcomb. 8. The Trouble with Quakers: Creating Racial Tensions in East and West Jersey, 1770-85 / James J. Gigantino II. -- 9. In Pursuit of Natural Rights and Liberty: The Brothers Waln in Greater Philadelphia and the Atlantic World / Susan Kozel. -- 10. The Abolitionist Circles of Benjamin Franklin: A Reluctant Abolitionist in Context, 1750-90 / Louisiane Ferlier.

Call Number

Sc E 16-35

ISBN

9781848935419
1848935412

OCLC

919090777

Title

Quakers and their allies in the abolitionist cause, 1754-1808 / edited by Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Perspectives on early America

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jackson, Maurice, 1950- editor.

Kozel, Sue, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-35

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