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Seymour Drescher. Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xi, 471. Cloth $95.00, paper $26.99 Among the many representations of the British antislavery movement, few images, excluding the cross-section of the Brookes and the husky slave on bended knee haloed by the plea, “Am I Not A Man and A Brother,” are as iconic as Thomas Clarkson's map of abolition. The importance of this visual diagram can be attributed in part to Clarkson's status as a key figure in the British antislavery movement, but more important than this is the map's distillation of history. Abolition is rendered through the emblem of a genealogical tree, the ultimate symbol of national and family history and of affiliation, community, and lineage. The second image flashes before us in a moment of danger—the danger of oblivion and trivialization. Last, there is the history without images, the scenes that have yet to be imagined or represented. What weight and gravity should be attributed to these distinct practices of antislavery?

Forrest Gump (1994) Skyfall (2012 An Exhortation & Caution To Friends Concerning Buying Or Keping of Negroes, George Ketih George Keith Moore, George, ed. The First Printed Protest Against Slavery in America, Reprinted from "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography." Philadelphia: n.p., 1889. This Document is on The Quaker Writings Home Page. Therefore we judge it necessary that all faithful Friends should discover themselves to be true Christians by having the Fruits of the Spirit of Christ, which are Love, Mercy, Goodness, and Compassion towards all in Misery, and that suffer Oppression and severe Usage, so far as in them is possible to ease and relieve them, and set them free of their hard Bondage, whereby it may be hoped, that many of them will be gained by their beholding these good Works of sincere Christians, and prepared thereby, through the Preaching the Gospel of Christ, to imbrace the true Faith of Christ. Some Reasons and Causes of our being against keeping of Negroes for Term of Life.

Hugo (2011) The Angels' Share (2012 Quakers (Society of Friends): The Abolition of Slavery Project The abolition campaign in Britain was started by the Society of Friends, known as the Quakers. Quakers believe that all people are created equal in the eyes of God. If this is the case, then how can one person own another? The beginnings of the Quakers' opposition came in 1657, when their founder, George Fox, wrote "To Friends beyond sea, that have Blacks and Indian slaves" to remind them of Quaker belief in equality. He later visited Barbados and his preaching, which urged for better treatment of enslaved people, was published in London in 1676 under the title Gospel Family-Order. '... now I say, if this should be the condition of you and yours, you would think it hard measure, yea, and very great Bondage and Cruelty. Around 1727, the Quakers began to express their official disapproval of the trade and promote reforms. In 1783 the 'London Society of Friends' yearly meeting presented a petition against the slave trade, signed by nearly 300 Quakers, to Parliament.

L'odyssée de Pi (2012) Cockneys vs Zombies (2012 Quakers in the World - Anti-Slavery Slavery is not simply a historical phenomenon. It persists to this day in modern forms, such as trafficking. Quakers have opposed it from very early on and still do. In the first few years after the Quaker movement began in 1652, slavery would have been outside the experience of most Quakers, as it was not much practised in Britain. Quakers were not alone in this, and the key strength of the historical abolitionist movement, in Britain and North America, was the determination of the slaves themselves. They raised slavery as a moral issue as early as the 1670s and 80s. They worked for nearly a century to eradicate it from the Quaker community. Quakers provided a leadership structure, reliable national network, and significant material resources to the campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic. A remarkable number of individual Quaker men and women gave exemplary leadership. In truth these landmarks in legislation were far from final: slavery has not been eliminated.

Shutter Island (2010) Coriolanus (2011 Quakers & Slavery : Underground Railroad By Christopher Densmore Curator, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College The Struggle for the Soul of America In 1857, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott decision, stated that "[a] person of African descent, whether emancipated or free, has no right which a white man is bound to respect..." The United States Constitution, adopted written in 1787, while avoiding the use of the word "slave" required that "fugitives from labor," meaning enslaved people, escaping from one state to another, must be returned to their so-called owners. More than a century before Dred Scott, in 1754, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends told its members "To live in ease and plenty, by the toil of those whom violence and cruelty have put in our power, is neither consistent with Christianity nor common justice." "[A] house divided against itself shall not stand..." Quaker Approaches to Abolitionism Moral Accountability and Slavery Quakers had a problem.