Slavery and the meetinghouse : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865 /
Jordan, Ryan P.,1977-
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press,
c2007.
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.
Antislavery movements
Abolitionists
Slavery and the church
Slavery and the church
Slaves
Quakers
Quaker abolitionists
Pacifism
Society of Friends