Philadelphia quakers and the antislavery movement /Brian Temple.

By:

Temple, Brian, 1955- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781476615776

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F158 .P455 2014

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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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