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Author Temple, Brian, 1955- author.

Title Philadelphia Quakers and the antislavery movement / Brian Temple
Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Part I. Removing the plank. Quaker beginnings -- Quaker beginnings in America -- Friends and slavery -- Victory and retreat -- Part II. Removing the splinter. The Revolution -- Creating a free nation, not a free people -- Legal help in and out of court -- The American Colonization Society and the schism -- Other avenues explored -- Part III. The Underground Railroad. Standing against the tide -- The tracks of the underground railroad -- The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act -- The penalty for defiance -- The tricks of the trade -- Stories of the underground -- The last fetter broken
Summary "The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves. Once they rejected slavery, the Quakers then began to petition the state and Federal governments to do the same. When those in power turned a blind eye to the suffering of those enslaved, the Quakers used both legal and, in the eyes of the government, illegal means to fight slavery. This determination to stand against slavery led some Quakers to join with others to be a part of the Underground Railroad. The transition from friend to foe of slavery was not a quick one but one that nevertheless was ahead of the rest of America"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Quaker abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Quaker abolitionists
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781476615776
1476615772