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- Title
NOT AT ANY PRICE: ABOLITION AND ECONOMICS IN THE 1842 INDIANA QUAKER SCHISM.
- Authors
Wood, Timothy L.
- Abstract
The article discusses a controversy regarding the involvement of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in economic activism for the abolition of slavery. Topics include the 1842 split of the Indiana Quakers, the role of personal piety in shaping Quaker views of a boycott of slave-made products, and the relation of Quaker theology to Quaker participation in the abolitionist free produce movement.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SLAVERY &; Quakers; INDIANA state history; HISTORY of boycotts; ANTISLAVERY movements; CHURCH controversies; PIETY; SCHISM; RELIGION; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Fides et Historia, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0884-5379
- Publication type
Article