Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement

ISBN-13: 9780786494071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Brian Temple

Opis

The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves--