“To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism
In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that Quakers adhered to a providential view of history, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery. Antislavery Quakers believed God’s dealings with them, for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2018]
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Brill research perspectives in quaker studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-115 |
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Quakers
B Providence B Covenant B antislavery B Paul Cuffe B Benjamin Lay B Golden Rule B John Woolman B Anthony Benezet B Abolition |
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| Summary: | In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that Quakers adhered to a providential view of history, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery. Antislavery Quakers believed God’s dealings with them, for good or ill, were contingent on their faithfulness. Their history of deliverance from persecution, the liberty of conscience they experienced in the British colonies, and the ethics of the Golden Rule formed a covenantal relationship with God that challenged notions of human bondage. Kershner traces the history of abolitionist theologies from George Fox and William Edmundson in the late seventeenth century to Paul Cuffe and Benjamin Banneker in the early nineteenth century. It covers the Germantown Protest, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, William Dillwyn, Warner Mifflin, and others who offered religious arguments against slavery. It also surveys recent developments in Quaker antislavery studies. |
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| ISSN: | 2542-498X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in quaker studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/2542498X-12340008 |