04390nam 2200709 450 991046501570332120200520144314.00-252-09612-6(CKB)3710000000202198(EBL)3414363(SSID)ssj0001266317(PQKBManifestationID)11671956(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266317(PQKBWorkID)11248828(PQKB)11681222(MiAaPQ)EBC3414363(StDuBDS)EDZ0001642933(OCoLC)884725833(MdBmJHUP)muse32452(Au-PeEL)EBL3414363(CaPaEBR)ebr10901911(CaONFJC)MIL629344(OCoLC)923498706(EXLCZ)99371000000020219820140816h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrQuakers and abolition /edited by Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey PlankUrbana, [Illinois] :University of Illinois Press,2014.©20141 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-252-03826-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank -- Part I. Freedom within Quaker discipline: arguments among friends -- "Liberation is coming soon": the radical reformation of Joshua Evans (1731-1798) / Ellen M. Ross -- Why Quakers and slavery? Why not more Quakers? / J. William Frost -- George F. White and Hicksite opposition to the abolitionist movement / Thomas D. Hamm -- "Without the consumers of slave produce there would be no slaves": Quaker women, antislavery activism and free-labor cotton dress in the 1850's / Anna Vaughan Kett -- The spiritual journeys of an abolitionist: Amy Kirby Post, 1802-1889 / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Part II. The scarcity of African Americans in the meetinghouse: racial issues among the Quakers -- Quaker evangelization in early Barbados: forging a path toward the unknowable / Kristen Block -- Anthony Benezet: working the antislavery cause inside and outside of "the society" / Maurice Jackson -- Aim for a free state and settle among Quakers: African-American and Quaker parallel communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey / Christopher Densmore -- The Quaker and the colonist: Moses Sheppard, Samuel Ford McGill, and transatlantic antislavery across the color line / Andrew Diemer -- Friend on the American frontier: Charles Pancoast's A Quaker forty-niner and the problem of slavery / James Emmett Ryan -- Part III. Did the rest of the world notice? The Quakers' reputation -- The slave trade, Quakers, and the early days of British abolition / James Walvin -- The Quaker antislavery commitment and how it revolutionized French antislavery through the Crevecoeur-Brissot friendship, 1782-1789 / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- Thomas Clarkson's Quaker trilogy: abolitionist narrative as transformative history / Dee E. Andrews and Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner -- The hidden story of Quakers and slavery / Gary B. Nash.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.Quaker abolitionistsUnited StatesHistoryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistorySlavery and the churchSociety of FriendsHistorySlavery and the churchUnited StatesQuaker abolitionistsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryElectronic books.Quaker abolitionistsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.Slavery and the churchSociety of FriendsHistory.Slavery and the churchQuaker abolitionistsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.326.089/96073Carey Brycchan1967-Plank Geoffrey Gilbert1960-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465015703321Quakers and abolition2134157UNINA