Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
History of the Religious Society of Friends
Author: Samuel Mcpherson JanneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Friends Intelligencer
Author: Narrative and Critical History of America
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Nation
Author: The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina
Author: Gerda LernerPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807868094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Moral Commerce
Author: Julie L. HolcombPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth
Author: A. Glenn CrothersPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813042224
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians’ attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties. Although this is an examination of a small community over time, the work deals with larger historical issues, such as how religious values are formed and evolve among a group and how these beliefs shape behavior even in the face of increasing hostility and isolation. As one of the most thorough studies of a pre–Civil War southern religious community of any kind, Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth provides a fresh understanding of the diversity of southern culture as well as the diversity of viewpoints among anti-slavery activists.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.