Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Adds an important sharpness to a cloudily understood aspect of American history. Crawford helps bring Quaker history into the mainstream of a larger context, providing a compelling narrative of a region, a community, and a fascinating individual. –Emma J. Lapansky-Werner, Haverford College.
• A thorough and often extraordinarily eloquent collection of documents from the struggle over emancipation and African-American freedom in the age of revolution. –Jon F. Sensbach, author of Rebecca’s Revival.
• Michael Crawford presents the compelling story of the colonial manumission movement 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.
• By means of the recently discovered journal and other writings of George Walton, The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden reveals the process by which one man committed himself to the cause of persuading the North Carolina Quaker community to free their slaves. This work also documents the Quakers’ conflict with the state of North Carolina that resulted from the manumissions, as well as the national repercussions of that conflict.
• Through diaries, petitions, legislative debates, and letters, well-known as well as uliknown players in the struggle for manumission are allowed to tell their own stories’in their own words, highlighting their personal motivations. This record of the Quaker movement to free their slaves in Revolutionary War-era North Carolina depicts, with penetrating clarity and embtion, a microcosm of the larger struggles over slavery and freedom in the contemporary Atlantic world. –Book Jacket.

Subjects:

• Slavery — North Carolina — History — 18th century — Sources.
• Antislavery movements — North Carolina — History — 18th century — Sources.
• Quaker abolitionists — North Carolina — History — 18th century — Sources.
• Quakers — North Carolina — History — 18th century — Sources.
• Slavery and the church — Society of Friends — History — 18th century — Sources.
• North Carolina — Social conditions — 18th century — Sources.

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