{"product_id":"quakers-and-slavery-9780691601113","title":"Quakers and Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*FIGURES, pg. viii*TABLES, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. Abolitionists Confront the Meeting, pg. 15*CHAPTER 2. Leadership and Control of the Yearly Meeting, pg. 32*CHAPTER 3. Slavery: Temptation and Challenge, pg. 54*CHAPTER 4. The Local Meetings Debate Slavery, pg. 87*CHAPTER 5. Shrewsbury and Chesterfield Meetings, pg. 112*CHAPTER 6. Chester and Philadelphia Meetings, pg. 148*CONCLUSION. The Limits of Quaker Reform, pg. 173*APPENDICES, pg. 189*INDEX, pg. 211","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403937980759,"sku":"9780691601113","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quakers-and-slavery-9780691601113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}