Working from memory here, I think David Brion Davis reports in The Problem of Slavery...I or II, that the Quaker central meeting in Philadelphia decided in the mid-1770s that one could not both be a Quaker and a slaveholder. Harold S. Forsythe History & Black Studies Fairfield University Date sent: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:54:24 -0400 From: John Shroeder <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: VA-HIST Digest - 16 Apr 2001 to 17 Apr 2001 (#2001-62) To: [log in to unmask] Send reply to: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]> > <snip> > > Regarding the arguments against slavery, Jack Rakove has a thoughtful > essay in Jan Ellis Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds. _Sally Hemings & Thomas > Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Univ Press of Va 1999) in > which he links the rise of the argument against slavery on moral and > religious grounds to the 19th-century evangelicals - pp. 228 ff. are > especially pertinent to the question of 21st-century perspectives and our > "judgment" of past generations. ______ Very thoughtful and informative > posting, thank you. > > Does anyone on list have info as to when the Quakers decided that their > religion supported an anti-slavery position? I seem to remember that > there was a decision but I don't know if it came all at once or spread > gradually from one locale to another. Do their meeting records deal with > any church actions taken against members for owning or trading in slaves? > John Shroeder _________ > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html