Quakers and Abolition, Paperback - ***

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Learn about the struggle for freedom and the key events in the build up to the abolition of slavery.

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on th...

Publisher: AK PressAuthor(s): William C. AndersonNumber of pages: 120Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 204 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups....

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Quakers, then keep reading...Many other mainline Christians viewed the Quakers as a dangerou...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Quakers, then keep reading...Many other mainline Christians viewed the Quakers as a dangerou...

"The Society of Friends has never had many members, scarcely more than 200, 000 in the entire world.... But it is not the number that matters. What...

Quakers Do What! Why? is an introduction to Quaker oddities. Based on a question and answer format, it is for anyone who has learned a fact about Q...

Toward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the arms race and prevent nuclear war. Examini...

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the busine...

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Reducere. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the effort to keep outside influences from impacting Quaker spirituality was clearly failing. Many Frie...

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C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled 'Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms ...

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdAuthor(s): Ardath WhynachtNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 16Cover type: Pape...

In this classic text, Rufus M. Jones offers an insightful overview of Quaker history, beliefs and humanitarianism. The Society of Friends was found...

A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "de...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Robert (Professor, University of Leicester) GarnerNumber of pages: 288Collection: Critical Perspecti...

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A systematic critique of imprisonment which challenges established views and myths. Examines why there still exists so much political and other mis...

This new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery narrative, placing Brazil within the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activi...

Reducere. In this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human r...

Reducere. On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account o...

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Reducere. Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rock...

Reducere. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has been reputed to have opposed enslavement and later racial injustices. Many members, however, enslave...

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Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Dorothy WickendenNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 212 x 139 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

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Reducere. In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the ...

When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it chang...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Beth RichieNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 222 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Reducere. As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment -- halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements t...

Presents the survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. This book offers examples from the 'abode of Islam', from the Philippines to Senegal and from...

An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil--philosopher, activist, mystic--is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In ``On the Ab...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These fi...

Publisher: Fordham University PressNumber of pages: 352Collection: Reconstructing AmericaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type...

The clearly and concisely written entries in this reference work chronicle the campaign to end human slavery in the United States, bringing to life...

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Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...

DescriptionWhy does it seem like the world is falling apart?Everywhere we look today, the world is changing, and not for the better. For many of us...

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...