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Journal Article
Creating an Abolitionist Genealogy
2018
Overview
Nash, a pre-eminent historian of the American Revolution, race, and the Society of Friends in Philadelphia, and author of, among other works, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 (1991) and The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006), connects Mifflin's awakening to the contradictions between his status as a wealthy Delaware slaveholder and the ongoing Quaker reformation, prompted in part by Benjamin Lay. According to Rediker, Lay's actions were \"guerilla theater\" (p. 2). [...]Lay is dressed as a typical Quaker, not in his own homespun. In 1793, Mifflin published A Serious Expostulation with the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, which decried slavery as a national sin and a violation of the country's founding principles.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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