Includes information about the Jackson, Beals, Belcher, Bourland, Bradley, Brinton, Brown, Earle, Griffin, Hines, Isbell, Painter, Rudd, and Stebbins families.
Early members of these families were Quakers.
Publisher and place of publication from label pasted on t.p.
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Summary
"The book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic, and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement." [from Goodreads.com]
