From peace to freedom: Quaker rhetoric and the birth of American antislavery, 1657 - 1761

"In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first organization to take a stand against the slave...

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Main Author: Carey, Brycchan 1967- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press c 2012
In:Year: 2012
Reviews:From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761 by Brycchan Carey (review) (2014) (Hamm, Thomas D.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Barbados / Pennsylvania / New Jersey / Quakers / Abolitionists / History 1657-1761
Further subjects:B Quakers History 18th century
B Slavery
B Freunde
B Church
B Slavery and the church Quakers History 18th century
B Quaker abolitionists History 18th century
B Antislavery movements History 18th century
B Quäker
B Society
B History