Quakers and Abolition

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction  1 Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank Part I  Freedom within Quaker Discipline: Arguments among Friends 1 “Liberation Is Coming Soon”: The Radical Reformation of Joshua Evans (1731–1798) 15 Ellen M. Ross 2 Why Quakers and Slavery? Why Not More Quakers?   29 J. William Frost 3 George F. White and Hicksite Opposition to the Abolitionist Movement  43 Thomas D. Hamm 4 “Without the Consumers of Slave Produce There Would Be No Slaves”: Quaker Women, Antislavery Activism, and Free-Labor Cotton Dress in the 1850s  56 Anna Vaughan Kett 5 The Spiritual Journeys of an Abolitionist: Amy Kirby Post, 1802–1889  73 Nancy A. Hewitt Part II  The Scarcity of African Americans in the Meetinghouse: Racial Issues among the Quakers 6 Quaker Evangelization in Early Barbados: Forging a Path toward the Unknowable  89 Kristen Block 7 Anthony Benezet: Working the Antislavery Cause inside and outside of “The Society”  106 Maurice Jackson 8 Aim for a Free State and Settle among Quakers: African-American and Quaker Parallel Communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey 120 Christopher Densmore 9 The Quaker and the Colonist: Moses Sheppard, Samuel Ford McGill, and Transatlantic Antislavery across the Color Line  135 Andrew Diemer 10 Friend on the American Frontier: Charles Pancoast’s A Quaker Forty-Niner and the Problem of Slavery  149 James Emmett Ryan Part III  Did the Rest of the World Notice? The Quakers’ Reputation 11 The Slave Trade, Quakers, and the Early Days of British Abolition  165 James Walvin 12 The Quaker Antislavery Commitment and How It Revolutionized French Antislavery through the Crèvecoeur–Brissot Friendship, 1782–1789  180 Marie-Jeanne Rossignol 13 Thomas Clarkson’s Quaker Trilogy: Abolitionist Narrative as Transformative History 194 Dee E. Andrews and Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner 14 The Hidden Story of Quakers and Slavery  209 Gary B. Nash Bibliography 225 Contributors 245 Index 251 ...