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Quaker Enslavement
3 September - 8 October 2023, Online
This course is for those who are interested in exploring early Friends' relationship with slavery beyond abolition in the Atlantic and North America. Why did they become enslavers? And how did their faith shape their enslavement practices?
As Friends settled in the English Atlantic colonies, they found ways to adapt to and participate in the developing slave societies. Many Friends who left the Caribbean for mainland North America took their plantation, and the people who they enslaved, with them to places such as Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Their ideas about slavery influenced both enslavement in the American South as well as the abolition movement.
Our course will cover the development of slave societies and ideas about race in the Caribbean, how Friends became involved in and practiced slavery, the influence of Quaker slavery on the British North American colonies, and the development of Quaker abolitionism. We will move chronologically throughout the centuries and each week we will highlight a different topic. We will look at primary documents and supplementary readings will be provided.
Live sessions are every Sunday 19:00-20:30 (UK time)
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For more information contact:
Woodbrooke
Telephone: 0121 7282360