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Quakers and Abolition
Carey Brycchan
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Description for Quakers and Abolition
Hardback. Offers a collection of fifteen insightful essays that examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. This volume seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible and provocative insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history. Editor(s): Carey, Brycchan; Plank, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
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. They often disagreed with one another and the larger antislavery movement about the morality of slaveholding and the best approach to abolition. Not surprisingly, contributors explain, this complicated and evolving antislavery sensibility left behind an equally complicated legacy. While Quaker antislavery was a powerful contemporary influence in both the United States and Europe, present-day scholars pay little substantive attention to the subject. This volume faithfully seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible yet provocative new insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history. Contributors include Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252038266
SKU
V9780252038266
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About Carey Brycchan
Brycchan Carey is a professor of English at Northumbria University and the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761. Geoffrey Plank is a professor of early modern history at the University of East Anglia and the author of John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire.
Reviews for Quakers and Abolition
A unique volume that well illustrates the richness of its subject. Quakers and Abolition offers fresh takes on several key debates and unsettles or complicates many simplistic assumptions about the subject.
Jonathan D. Sassi, author of A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy A nicely balanced volume in every way, important not only for what it covers but also for how it will inspire future students of Quakers and race. These essays encourage other scholars to reexamine Quakers and their interracial activism, while suggesting a variety of useful new perspectives and tools.
Allan W. Austin, author of Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950
Jonathan D. Sassi, author of A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy A nicely balanced volume in every way, important not only for what it covers but also for how it will inspire future students of Quakers and race. These essays encourage other scholars to reexamine Quakers and their interracial activism, while suggesting a variety of useful new perspectives and tools.
Allan W. Austin, author of Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950