Slavery and the Meetinghouse The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865

Name: Slavery and the Meetinghouse The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
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ISBN: 9780253348609

ISBN-10: 0253348609

ISBN-13: 9780253348609

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ryan P. Jordan

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Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism. The conflict between the Quakers and the Abolitionists highlights the…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction: Quakers, Slavery, and the "Peaceable Kingdom"



Quaker Gradualists and the Challenge of Abolitionism



Slavery, Religious Liberty, and the "Political" Abolitionism of the Indiana Anti-Slavery Friends



Friends and the "Children of Africa": Quaker Abolitionists Confront the Negro Pew



"Progressive" Friends and the Government of God



Quaker Pacifism and Civil Disobedience in the Antebellum Period


Conclusion: "Fighting Quakers," Abolitionists, and the Civil War