TY  - GEN
T1  - Writings of Warner Mifflin : forgotten Quaker abolitionist of the revolutionary era
A1  - Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798
A2  - Nash, Gary B.
A2  - McDowell, Michael R.
LA  - English
PP  - Newark
PB  - University of Delaware Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1337943835
AB  - In The Writings of Warner Mifflin, Gary Nash and Michael McDowell present the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans, Mifflin has been brought to life in Nash's recent biography, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of this conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware, a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed "restitution" to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as well as the halls of the Continental Congress and the First and Second Federal Congresses. An opening introduction and introductions to each of the five chronologically arranged parts of the book provide context for the documents and a narrative of the life of this remarkable American.
OP  - 582
CN  - E446 .M637 2021
SN  - 1644531860
SN  - 9781644531860
SN  - 9781644531853
SN  - 1644531852
KW  - Mifflin, Warner, : 1745-1798.
KW  - Mifflin, Warner, : 1745-1798
KW  - Quaker abolitionists : Delaware.
KW  - Antislavery movements : United States : History : 19th century : Sources.
KW  - Abolitionnistes quakers : Delaware.
KW  - Mouvements antiesclavagistes : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle : Sources.
KW  - Historical.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
KW  - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - United States.
KW  - Essays.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
KW  - Quaker.
KW  - Christianity.
KW  - RELIGION.
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Quaker abolitionists
KW  - Delaware
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
ER  -