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Brycchan Carey is a professor of English at Northumbria University and the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761. Geoffrey Plank is a professor of early modern history at the University of East Anglia and the author of John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire.
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Contributors Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin.
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Brycchan Carey is a reader in English literature at Kingston University, London, and the author of "Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761." Geoffrey Plank is a professor of history at the University of East Anglia and the author of "John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire."
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Offers a collection of fifteen insightful essays that examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. This volume seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible and provocative insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history.
