From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657–1761 by Brycchan Carey

Abstract

Far more than previous scholarship, Brycchan Carey’s From Peace to Freedom successfully mines the discursive origins of Pennsylvania Quaker abolitionism in painstaking detail. Carey’s main contribution is to demonstrate that, in his words, “Quaker discussions about slavery were far more extensive and far more interconnected than a reading of the printed sources alone would suggest” (22).