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The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden

The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina

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Publisher's Synopsis

Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume. Embedding complete primary documents within the context of his own interpretive analysis, Crawford effectively shows how the consequences of this group's antislavery activism radiated out from a few individuals to the region, the state, and, eventually, the nation.

Students and scholars will be able to draw their own insights from the important documents presented in , many of them obscure or recently discovered. Through diaries, petitions, legislative debates, and letters, well-known as well as unknown players in the struggle for manumission are allowed to tell their own stories in their own words. This approach has the effect of highlighting the personal motivation of figures both prominent and obscure in the movement.

Book information

ISBN: 9780813034706
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Pub date:
DEWEY: 975.603
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 237
Weight: 503g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 25mm