Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement by Brian Temple

Author:Brian Temple
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

It was these beliefs that brought her and her husband to the convention.23

The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1833, but the Pennsylvania branch began in 1837. This picture, taken in 1851, shows the Executive Committee as a mixture of Quakers and non–Quakers as well as men and women, which was not a common occurrence in the 19th century. Standing (left to right): Mary Grew, Edward M. Davis, Haworth Wetherald, Abby Kimber, J. Miller McKim, Sarah Pugh. Seated (left to right): Oliver Johnson, Margaret Jones Burleigh, Benjamin C. Bacon, Robert Purvis, Lucretia Mott, and James Mott (Swarthmore College, Friends Historical Library).

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