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1 online resource |
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Perspectives on early America |
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Perspectives on early America.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction -- Maurice Jackson and Susan Kozel; 1 Warner Mifflin (1745-98): The Remarkable Life of an Unflinching Abolitionist -- Gary B. Nash; 2 Sarah Woolman and the Anti-Slavery Family -- Geoffrey Plank; 3 Friends, Family and Freedom in Colonial Philadelphia: A Black Slave-Owner Settles her Accounts -- Julie Winch; 4 'What Shall Be Done with the Negroes?' Anthony Benezet's Legacy: Then and Now -- Maurice Jackson |
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5 'Samuel Meredith (1741-1817): American Patriot and Welsh Philanthropist' -- Richard C. Allen6 'Come Out of Babylon, My People': John Woolman's (1720-72) Anti-Slavery Theology and the Transatlantic Economy -- Jon R. Kershner; 7 Rejecting the Gain of Oppression: Quaker Abstention and the Abolitionist Cause -- Julie L. Holcomb; 8 The Trouble with Quakers: Creating Racial Tensions in East and West Jersey, 1770-85 -- James J. Gigantino II; 9 In Pursuit of Natural Rights and Liberty -- The Brothers Waln in Greater Philadelphia and the Atlantic World -- Susan Kozel |
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10 The Abolitionist Circles of Benjamin Franklin: A Reluctant Abolitionist in Context, 1750-90 -- Louisiane FerlierNotes; Index |
| Summary |
This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the cause to abolish slavery in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area (including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware), a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history. -- Adapted from the publisher's web site |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016) |
| Subject |
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
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Fortune, Ann Elizabeth
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798.
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Meredith, Samuel, 1741-1817.
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Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813.
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Waln, Richard, 1737-1809.
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Woolman, John, 1720-1772.
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Woolman, Sarah Ellis, 1721-1787.
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| SUBJECT |
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 fast |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 fast |
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Meredith, Samuel, 1741-1817 fast |
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Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798 fast |
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Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 fast |
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Waln, Richard, 1737-1809 fast |
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Woolman, John, 1720-1772 fast |
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Woolman, Sarah Ellis, 1721-1787 fast |
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Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
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Quaker abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
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Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
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Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History
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Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends -- History
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Slavery and the church -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Abolitionists
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Antislavery movements
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Quaker abolitionists
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Slavery and the church
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Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jackson, Maurice, 1950- editor.
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Kozel, Susan (History instructor), editor
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| ISBN |
9781317272786 |
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1317272781 |
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