TY  - BOOK
AU  - Temple,Brian
TI  - Philadelphia quakers and the antislavery movement /Brian Temple
SN  - 9781476615776
AV  - F158 .P455 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - History
KW  - Quaker abolitionists
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Part I. Removing the plank --; Quaker beginnings --; Quaker beginnings in America --; Friends and slavery --; Victory and retreat --; Part II. Removing the splinter --; The Revolution --; Creating a free nation, not a free people --; Legal help in and out of court --; The American Colonization Society and the schism --; Other avenues explored --; Part III. The underground railroad --; Standing against the tide --; The tracks of the underground railroad --; The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act --; The penalty for defiance --; The tricks of the trade --; Stories of the underground --; The last fetter broken; 2; b
N2  - "The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves"--
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