Entries from January 1, 2007 - February 1, 2007
The First Friends and Slavery -- Part Four
Marshall Massey
in Discernment, Slavery, Equality, Quaker History
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The entrenched core of wealthy and privileged slaveholders, and their allies in the slaveholding artisan class, were still resisting the call to face the facts of slavery.
Eloquence and stridency had failed to reach them. Some other method of reaching out was needed.
And so it was that John Woolman, the best of the next generation of abolitionists — and his allies Anthony Benezet, John Churchman, and others — were led to reach back into history, and to reclaim the methods of Fox, the Balby elders, William Dewsbury, John Roberts, and Joseph Pike.
Images to Pass Around
Marshall Massey
in Relating to Creation, Practical Efforts
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Looking for ways to get your local monthly meeting off dead-center, vis-à-vis environmental matters?
Looking for ways to get your co-workers, friends and neighbors thinking about life-style changes?
Just show them the images below.