Quakers and Abolition.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank -- Part I Freedom within Quaker Discipline: Arguments among Friends -- 1 "Liberation Is Coming Soon": The Radical Reformation of Joshua Evans (1731-1798) Ellen M. Ross -- 2 Why Quakers and Slavery? Why not More Quakers? J. William Frost -- 3 George F. White and Hicksite Opposition to the Abolitionist Movement Thomas D. Hamm -- 4 "Without the Consumers of Slave Produce There Would Be No Slaves": Quaker Women, Antislavery Activ -- 5 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 -- 6 Quaker Evangelization in Early Barbados: Forging a Path toward the Unknowable Kristen Block -- 7 Anthony Benezet: Working the Antislavery Cause inside and outside of "The Society" Maurice Ja -- 8 Aim for a Free State and Settle among Quakers: African-American and Quaker Parallel Communities in -- 9 The Quaker and the Colonist: Moses Sheppard, Samuel Ford McGill, and Transatlantic Antislavery acr -- 10 Friend on the American Frontier: Charles Pancoast's A Quaker Forty-Niner and the Problem of Slave -- Part III Did the Rest of the World Notice? The Quakers' Reputation -- 11 The Slave Trade, Quakers, and the Early Days of British Abolition James Walvin -- 12 The Quaker Antislavery Commitment and How It Revolutionized French Antislavery through the Crèvec -- 13 Thomas Clarkson's Quaker Trilogy: Abolitionist Narrative as Transformative History Dee E. Andre -- 14 The Hidden Story of Quakers and Slavery Gary B. Nash -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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