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Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit - Soderlund, Jean R.
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is book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic, and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement. Originally published ...

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Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691630878

Hardcover

Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691601113

Trade paperback

Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit 1988, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691102436

Trade paperback

Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit 1985, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691047324

Hardcover