Author: Daniel Richard Kroupa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"This study will argue that the fear of slave revolts acted as the primary motivation for the migration of many members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from North Carolina to the Old Northwest, especially Ohio and Indiana, during the early nineteenth century. From around 1800 until the outbreak of the American Civil War approximately 12,000 Quakers living in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia migrated to Indiana and Ohio. More than half of these migrants came from North Carolina. Historians studying the Quaker "Great Migration" have generally agreed that economics and opposition to slavery played major roles in motivating Southern Quakers to move to the Northwest. However, the fear of slave revolts went beyond economics and general opposition to slavery as an inducement for North Carolina Quakers to migrate."--Abstract, page [ii]
Slave Revolts and North Carolina Quaker Migration
Author: Daniel Richard Kroupa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"This study will argue that the fear of slave revolts acted as the primary motivation for the migration of many members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from North Carolina to the Old Northwest, especially Ohio and Indiana, during the early nineteenth century. From around 1800 until the outbreak of the American Civil War approximately 12,000 Quakers living in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia migrated to Indiana and Ohio. More than half of these migrants came from North Carolina. Historians studying the Quaker "Great Migration" have generally agreed that economics and opposition to slavery played major roles in motivating Southern Quakers to move to the Northwest. However, the fear of slave revolts went beyond economics and general opposition to slavery as an inducement for North Carolina Quakers to migrate."--Abstract, page [ii]
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"This study will argue that the fear of slave revolts acted as the primary motivation for the migration of many members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from North Carolina to the Old Northwest, especially Ohio and Indiana, during the early nineteenth century. From around 1800 until the outbreak of the American Civil War approximately 12,000 Quakers living in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia migrated to Indiana and Ohio. More than half of these migrants came from North Carolina. Historians studying the Quaker "Great Migration" have generally agreed that economics and opposition to slavery played major roles in motivating Southern Quakers to move to the Northwest. However, the fear of slave revolts went beyond economics and general opposition to slavery as an inducement for North Carolina Quakers to migrate."--Abstract, page [ii]
Slavery and the Meetinghouse
Author: Ryan P. Jordan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253117097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism. The conflict between the Quakers and the Abolitionists highlights the dilemma of liberal religion within a slaveholding republic.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253117097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church members could fuse religious worship with social activism. The conflict between the Quakers and the Abolitionists highlights the dilemma of liberal religion within a slaveholding republic.
Christian Slavery
Author: Katharine Gerbner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294904
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave owners in the Caribbean and elsewhere established governments and legal codes based on an ideology of "Protestant Supremacy," which excluded the majority of enslaved men and women from Christian communities. For slaveholders, Christianity was a sign of freedom, and most believed that slaves should not be eligible for conversion. When Protestant missionaries arrived in the plantation colonies intending to convert enslaved Africans to Christianity in the 1670s, they were appalled that most slave owners rejected the prospect of slave conversion. Slaveholders regularly attacked missionaries, both verbally and physically, and blamed the evangelizing newcomers for slave rebellions. In response, Quaker, Anglican, and Moravian missionaries articulated a vision of "Christian Slavery," arguing that Christianity would make slaves hardworking and loyal. Over time, missionaries increasingly used the language of race to support their arguments for slave conversion. Enslaved Christians, meanwhile, developed an alternate vision of Protestantism that linked religious conversion to literacy and freedom. Christian Slavery shows how the contentions between slave owners, enslaved people, and missionaries transformed the practice of Protestantism and the language of race in the early modern Atlantic world.
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina
Author: John Spencer Bassett
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Author: Alexander Falconbridge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad
Author: Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095898
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095898
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.
Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
Author: David Walker
Publisher:
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy
Author: William Wade Hinshaw
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Quaker History
Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
Author: Marvin L. Michael Kay
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786238X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786238X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.