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Quakers and abolition
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"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 how Quakers often disagreed with one anoth…
Quakers and abolition
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Type: Book
Quakers and abolition
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Type: Book
Quakers and abolition
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Type: Book
"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 how Quakers often disagreed with one anoth…
Quakers and abolition
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Type: Book
"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 how Quakers often disagreed with one anoth…
"This book explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried to end slavery through peaceful protest."--Jacket.
In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. This work reminds us of the difficulti…