In this Book
- Quakers and Abolition
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
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 Quaker's beliefs to be far from monolithic. They often disagreed with one another and the larger antislavery movement about the morality of slaveholding and the best approach to abolition.
Not surprisingly, contributors explain, this complicated and evolving antislavery sensibility left behind an equally complicated legacy. While Quaker antislavery was a powerful contemporary influence in both the United States and Europe, present-day scholars pay little substantive attention to the subject. This volume faithfully seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible yet provocative new insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history.
Contributors include Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Part I Freedom within Quaker Discipline: Arguments among Friends
- Part II The Scarcity of African Americans in the Meetinghouse: Racial Issues among the Quakers
- Part III Did the Rest of the World Notice? The Quakers’ Reputation
- 14. The Hidden Story of Quakers and Slavery
- pp. 209-224
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-244
- Contributors
- pp. 245-250
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2014