Quakers and Abolition

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Index abolitionism: American, 44, 47–52, 141–42, 143–44, 145–46; in eighteenth -century Britain, 5, 10, 114, 165–79, 195–96, 205; French, 10, 114, 180; Garrisonian, 37–38, 49, 62, 137; in nineteenth-century Britain, 5, 29, 76, 199, 219–20; in school textbooks, 209–24. See also antislavery Abolition Society (UK). See Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act for Total British Abolition 1807, 177 Africa: in Anthony Benezet’s writing, 9, 106, 110–11, 114, 115; evangelization , 34; religion, 93, 95; slavery in, 34–35, 47, 94, 111, 168, 183; Thomas Clarkson and, 166, 167–68, 203, 204, 205; trade, 62, 93–94, 98–99, 166. See also colonization schemes; individual nations and regions by name African Free School, 107–8, 116, 118 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 108, 124, 131 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 75–76 Africans, 9, 30, 89–90, 92–96, 106 Africans in America, 219 African Union Methodist Church, 122, 124, 125, 128, 129 agriculture, 21 alcohol, 21, 139, 152, 153. See also rum Alexander I, 203 Allen, Richard, 108, 116, 219, 221 Allen, William, 194, 196, 199 Allinson, Samuel, 17 America: geographical region, 21, 62, 176. See also individual colonies and states by name; United States American Abolition Society, 37 American Anti-Slavery Society, 44, 50, 75, 127 American Civil War, Quaker activity in lead up to, 5, 30, 44; Quaker activity during and after, 40, 82, 153; in school textbooks, 210, 211 American Colonization Society, 9, 36, 108, 135–37, 145 American Free Produce Association, 67 American Revolution, and slavery, 4, 112, 113; and British abolitionism, 29; Crèvecoeur and, 180, 187; and Quaker politics, 7, 35; role of African Americans in, 219; in school textbooks, 213, 215; and the slave trade, 6, 113 American Sunday School Union, 45–46 American War of Independence. See American Revolution Anabaptists, 33 An Account of the European Settlements in America, 111 Angola, 93 animals, 15 Anthony, Susan B., 83 Antigua, 2 antiracism, 217 antislavery, 16, 25, 44, 136, 180. See also abolitionism Anti-Slavery Reporter, The, 58 Aptheker, Herbert, 214, 217 252 index Arch Street Meeting (Philadelphia), 141 Aristotle, 118n13 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 214 Auslander, Leora, 64 Austin, Anne, 89 Bailey, Thomas A., 215–6 Baltimore, MD, 36, 121–22, 138, 140–41 Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 43 Bancroft Prize, 217 Baptists, 18, 33, 75 Barbados, Quaker colonists in, 2, 89–94, 111; Africans in, 9, 23, 93–102, 111–12; George Fox visits, 2–3, 32, 89, 94, 96 Barbé-Marbois, François, Marquis de, 106 Barclay, Robert, 34 Barham Court, 170 Barker, Rachel, 49, 51 Barlow, Joel, 190 Barnes, Elizabeth, 97 Bartram, John, 184 Bath, UK, 171 BBC, 219 Beale, Howard, 217 Beard, Charles A., 211 Beard, Mary, 211 Beecher, Lyman, 152 Bell, John, 30 Benezet, Anthony: antislavery arguments , 4, 108–13; A Short Account of That Part of Africa Inhabited by the Negroes, 110, 111–12; campaigns to celebrate, 10, 221; death, 116–17; early life, 106–8; historiography and legacy, 5, 117–18, 219, 220; influence beyond Quakerism, 9, 106, 114–15, 188, 189; Observations on Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes , 110; Notes on the Slave Trade, 113, 115; and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 3, 108–9; in school textbooks , 214, 218; Short Observations on Slavery, 107–8; Some Historical Account of Guinea, 110, 111, 112, 114, 167–68; and Thomas Clarkson, 106, 114, 167–68, 177, 200 Benezet, Jean, 106–7 Benin, 111 Bennett, William, 218–19 Bergan County, NJ, 120–21 Berlin, Ira, 120, 131 Bible, 31–32, 39, 91, 92 Birmingham, UK, 60, 219 Birmingham Ladies’ Negro’s Friend Society, 61 Bisset, Robert, 198–99 Bob Jones University Press, 218 Boen, William, 1–2 Boorstin, Daniel, 216–17 Boston, MA, 61, 78, 79, 83, 151, 213 boycotts, 4, 48, 58–59, 60, 171. See also free produce movement Brazil, 113 Brecher, Aaron, 15 Bridgetown, Barbados, 97, 98 Bridgetown Women’s Meeting, 97, 100 Bridport, UK, 61 Bright, John, 66 Bright, Margaret, 66 Bringhurst, Deborah Ferris, 43 Brissot, Jacques (or Jean) Pierre de Warville, and Crèvecoeur, 10, 180, 182, 185–90, 192n32; and Anthony Benezet, 114, 117; and the Société des Amis des Noirs, 114, 188–89, 190, 196 Bristol, UK, 62, 171 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 60 British Empire: abolition and emancipation in, 6, 48–49, 80, 165–79, 198; imperial policy, 35 [3.15.218.254] Project MUSE (2024-04-26...