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Article: "The Power that giveth Liberty and Freedom": the Barbadian origins of Quaker antislavery rhetoric, 1657-76.(Essay)
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- January 1, 2007
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The role played by members of the Society of Friends in the history of the formal abolition movements on both sides of the Atlantic is relatively well known; Quakers were prominent members of both British and American abolition and antislavery societies from their foundation in the 1780s onwards. Rather less well known is the century-long debate that took place within Quakerism as to whether Friends could legitimately own or trade in slaves. The first Quakers of the 1640s and 50s were not automatically opposed either to slavery or the slave trade, and some Friends remained active slaveholders and slave traders into the late eighteenth century. A small number of studies ...
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