Quakers and Abolition

By Geoffrey Gilbert Plank and Brycchan Carey

Book Overview

Considered a monolith of abolitionist belief, Quakers in fact often disagreed with each other and the larger movement on slavery. Brycchan Carey and Geoffrey Plank curate fifteen essays examining the diverse body of opinion on the issue within the international Friends community in the United States, Great Britain, and France. The contributors go back to 1658 and as far forward as 1890 to offer nuanced takes on topics on topics like Quaker missions in Barbados; one Quaker's transatlantic correspondence with a freed slave who returned to Africa as a Liberian colonist; and the impact of Quaker-authored frontier literature. Accessible and provocative, Quakers and Abolition offers readers new insights on this key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083474
• ISBN13: 9780252083471
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"