Early Coastal North Carolina Quakers & Slaves
J. Timothy Allen, PhD, professor of humanities at Strayer University, will discuss the early North Carolina Quakers’ attitudes toward slavery and how and why they progressed from slavery to manumission. Quakers from Virginia and New England arrived in coastal North Carolina from the 1650s into the early 1700s. Surprisingly, many were enslavers who forced enslaved people to labor on Quaker farms in the colony.
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I LOVE this!!!! My father was born in Aulander in 1918 in Snakebite Township, but he raised me in Baltimore, Maryland. The first Quaker meeting house still stands on a corner near Johns Hopkins. Maryland was established as a Jesuit Slave Province, but they call that the "Free State" and to see that your first Quaker built a brick house and it has the name "White" on it makes me think Jesuit Father Andrew White. If a salesman came to you that dealt in human cargo and held the beliefs of an Ancient God.... they could get you to believe anything - even that slaves would increase business. I have a story about what Francis Scott Key was peddling on the people and THAT did teach people an unquestionable religion. Much Love from Baltimore - what happened during that time? A suppression from 1773-1814
Thank you for sharing the characteristics of Quakers. I have Quaker ancestors from Yadkin County, but all I knew about them was that they were pacifists. Being primarily Moravian, which was also known as a pacifist sect, it's interesting to see how pacifist religious sects addressed the issue of slavery. Puritans of the Puritans? Wow!