This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history.

About the Author
Maurice Jackson is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies and Affiliated Professor of Performing Arts (Jazz) at Georgetown University. Susan Kozel is an adjunct professor of history at Kean University.

Reviews

"Here we have an excellent attempt to understand the relationship between Quakers and slavery and to offer insight into the role of traders, abolitionists, African Americans and problematic others who worked towards ending slavery and the slave trade. It has proved a successful venture as it makes a significant contribution to the historiography of studies in the abolition of slavery and Quaker history in the USA and its influence beyond."

- Graham Duncan, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae

"The collection deepens our understanding of a crucial formative period in the abolitionist movement. Directed at a general audience of historians and scholars of religion it will help the student of abolitionism to see even more clearly and in intriguingly finer details the Quaker contribution to the movement's formation."

- PETER STAMATOV, NYU ABU DHABI / JUAN MARCH-CARLOS III, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES

Book Information
ISBN 9781138058651
Author Maurice Jackson
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 400g