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Warner Mifflin Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist【電子書籍】[ Gary B. Nash ]

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＜p＞Warner Mifflinーenergetic, uncompromising, and reviledーwas the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine.＜/p＞＜p＞After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his genera...

Writings of Warner Mifflin Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era【電子書籍】[ Warner Mifflin ]

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＜p＞In ＜em＞The Writings of Warner Mifflin＜/em＞, Gary Nash and Michael McDowell present the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans, Mifflin has been brought to life in Nash’s recent biography, ＜em＞Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist＜/em＞ (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of this conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware, a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed “restitution” to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of Nort...

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