Description: Further DetailsTitle: Warner MifflinCondition: NewSubtitle: Unflinching Quaker AbolitionistISBN-10: 0812249496EAN: 9780812249491ISBN: 9780812249491Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/07/2017Description: Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—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.After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s.Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Gary B. NashGenre: HistoryBook Series: Early American StudiesTopic: Law & Politics, Biography, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Warner Mifflin
Title: Warner Mifflin
Subtitle: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist
ISBN-10: 0812249496
EAN: 9780812249491
ISBN: 9780812249491
Release Date: 09/07/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Warner Mifflin : Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Christianity / Quaker, General, Social Activists
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Gary B. Nash
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Early American Studies
Format: Hardcover
