Title Slavery and the meetinghouse : the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma, 1820-1865 / Ryan P. Jordan.

Publication Info.	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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. This work reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery.
Subject	Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Pacifism. (OCoLC)fst01050108
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Subject	Slavery and the church. (OCoLC)fst01120512
	Slavery and the church -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends. (OCoLC)fst01767761
	Quakers -- Political activity. (OCoLC)fst01084929
	Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends -- History -- 19th century.
	Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
	Quakers.
	Quaker abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst01084901
	Society of Friends. (OCoLC)fst01123801
Genre/Form	Church history. (OCoLC)fst01411629
Subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
	United States -- Church history.
	Abolitionisme.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
	Pacifism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavernij.
	United States.
	Antislavery movements. (OCoLC)fst00810800
Other Form:	Print version: Jordan, Ryan P., 1977- Slavery and the meetinghouse. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007 0253348609 (DLC) 2006027587 (OCoLC)71241877
ISBN	9780253117090 (electronic bk.)
	0253117097 (electronic bk.)

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