Quakers

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 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition

Quakers

Religious group that espoused the idea that slavery was morally wrong. In the nineteenth century Quakers promoted manumission and abolition, founded schools for black children and supported their education, and participated in the Underground Railroad.

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Early African American Quakers: See Abolitionism in the United States; Cuffe, Paul.

Eighteenth-century Quaker abolitionism: See Abolitionism in the United States; At the Heart of Slavery; Free African Society; Manumission Societies; New York Manumission Society.

Eighteenth-century primary school for blacks cofounded by Quakers: See African Free School.

Nineteenth-century Quaker school, the Institute for Colored Youth: See Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos; Bouchet, Edward Alexander; Browne, Hugh M.

The twentieth-century Fellowship of Reconciliation (an interracial, pacifist Quaker organization): See Farmer, James; Thurman, Howard.

Black Quakers in the twentieth century: See Reid, Ira De A.; Rustin, Bayard.

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