Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit

Jean R. Soderlund

Published by Princeton University Press 1985

Quakers and Slavery

A Divided Spirit

Jean R. Soderlund

Volume 411 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400857777

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is book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic, and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement.

Originally published in 1985.

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"Quakers and Slavery is an impressive monograph, a carefully argued and unpretentious study that provides the best analysis yet available of the origins, character, and limits of antislavery sentiment for any segment of the slave society of eighteenth-century colonial British America. This is a work of genuine excellence."—Jack P. Greene, The Johns Hopkins University

Jean R. Soderlund describes and analyzes how Quakers in the Delaware Valley moved from an unthinking but extensive involvement in slavery in the late seventeenth century to a commitment to eradication of this evil among themselves before the end of the eighteenth century. . . . Taken together, the three variables [described by Soderlund] provide a powerful and persuasive framework within which to view the `Divided Spirit' that characterized the Quaker response to slavery between the 1680s and 1780s.---Owen S. Ireland, William and Mary Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. Abolitionists Confront the Meeting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER 2. Leadership and Control of the Yearly Meeting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
CHAPTER 3. Slavery: Temptation and Challenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
CHAPTER 4. The Local Meetings Debate Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CHAPTER 5. Shrewsbury and Chesterfield Meetings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
CHAPTER 6. Chester and Philadelphia Meetings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
CONCLUSION. The Limits of Quaker Reform Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
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