Quakers and Abolition

Contributors

Contributors Dee E. Andrews is a professor of History at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760–1800 (Princeton University Press, 2000), winner of the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Her articles include “Religion and the Revolutionary War” in the new edition of Scribner’s Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (2006) and “From Natural Rights to National Sins: Philadelphia’s Churches Face Antislavery” in Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). Her new work on abolitionist book history has been inspired by research on a larger project on Gradual Emancipation. Kristen Block is an associate professor of History at Florida Atlantic University , where she teaches courses on early America, colonial Latin America, and Atlantic history. Her first monograph, Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean : Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit (University of Georgia Press, 2012), is a comparative microhistorical study of Christianity in the early Spanish and British Caribbean. She has begun work on a second project, tentatively titled Health, Disease, and the Spirit: Religion, Healing and the Colonial Body in the Early Caribbean, on how people of different religious and ethnic origins conceptualized disease and its connection to spiritual health—both of the individual body and of the social body. Brycchan Carey is a professor of English Literature at Kingston University in London. He is the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658–1761 (Yale University Press, 2012) and British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760–1807 (Palgrave, 2005). He is the editor with Peter Kitson of Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition: Essays Marking the British Abolition Act of 1807 (Boydell and Brewer, 2007) and with Markman Ellis and Sara Salih of Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760–1838 (Palgrave, 2004). He is currently writing a book on the relationship between antislavery activism and the emergence of environmental consciousness. 246 Contributors Christopher Densmore is a curator at Friends Historical Library. He is theauthorofRedJacket:IroquoisDiplomatandOrator(Syracuse,1999);coeditor of Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of the New York Yearly Meetings (Syracuse, 1995); author of journal articles including “Be Ye therefore Perfect: Anti-Slavery and the Origins of the Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends in Chester County, Pennsylvania,” Quaker History (2004), “The Dilemma of Quaker Anti-Slavery: The Case of Farmington Quarterly Meeting, 1836–1860,” QuakerHistory(1993),andotherarticlesinNewYorkHistory,CanadianQuaker History Journal, Quaker Studies, Journal of Long Island History, and elsewhere. He is currently vice president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Andrew Diemer is an assistant professor of History at Towson University. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 2011. He is the author of “Reconstructing Philadelphia: African Americans and Politics in the Post-Civil War North,” which appeared in the January 2009 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. He is currently revising a book manuscript on African American politics in Philadelphia and Baltimore during the nineteenth century. J. William Frost is the Emeritus Jenkins Professor of Quaker History and Research and former director of the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. He is the author of A Perfect Freedom: Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania , The Quaker Family in Colonial America, A History of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim Perspectives on War and Peace; coauthor of The Quakers and also Christianity: A Cultural History; and editor of The Quaker Origins of Antislavery, The Keithian Controversy in Early Pennsylvania, and The Records and Recollections of James Jenkins. Thomas D. Hamm is a professor of History and director of Special Collections at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of, among other publications, The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800–1907 (Indiana University Press, 1988) and The Quakers in America (Columbia University Press, 2003) and the editor of Quaker Writings, 1650–1920 (Penguin Classics, 2011). His work on George F. White is part of a larger project on Hicksite Friends in the nineteenth century. Nancy A. Hewitt is a distinguished professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her work Contributors 247 focuses on women’s activism in the United States and beyond with a particular focus on the ways that religion, race, and class shape women’s efforts. Her publications include...