By Maurice Jackson,Susan Kozel
This quantity explores the numerous connections among the Quaker neighborhood and the abolitionist reason in the United States. The case stories that make up the gathering in most cases specialize in the larger Philadelphia zone, a hotbed of the abolitionist circulate and the site of the 1st American abolition society based in 1775. regardless of the significance of Quakers to the abolitionist stream, their value has been principally ignored within the present historiography. those reviews should be of curiosity to students of slavery and abolition, spiritual heritage, Atlantic stories and American social and political history.
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