Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865

Contents

Contents preface ix acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Quakers, Slavery, and the “Peaceable Kingdom” 1 1. Quaker Gradualists and the Challenge of Abolitionism 24 2. Slavery, Religious Liberty, and the “Political” Abolitionism of the Indiana Anti-Slavery Friends 41 3. Friends and the “Children of Africa”: Quaker Abolitionists Confront the Negro Pew 67 4. “Progressive” Friends and the Government of God 81 5. Quaker Paci¤sm and Civil Disobedience in the Antebellum Period 104 Conclusion: “Fighting Quakers,” Abolitionists, and the Civil War 122 notes 135 bibliography 155 index 163 ...