Slavery and the meetinghouse [electronic resource] : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865 / Ryan P. Jordan.
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TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 175 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0253348609 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253348609 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery and the church -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
- Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Church history
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index.
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.
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