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Slavery and the meetinghouse : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865  Cover Image Book Book

Slavery and the meetinghouse : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865

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  • ISBN: 9780253348609 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0253348609 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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  • Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-161) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: 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
Enslaved persons 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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

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