Quakers and Abolition

by Geoffrey Gilbert Plank and Brycchan Carey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038266
• ISBN13: 9780252038266
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"