| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Slavery and the Meetinghouse: The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820–1865. By Ryan P. Jordan. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xvi, 175 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-34860-9.)
In Slavery and the Meetinghouse, Ryan P. Jordan provides a clear and convincing discussion of the moderate—even conservative—position of most Orthodox and Hicksite Friends on abolitionism and related reform issues such as equity for African Americans and women. This is high praise: the myriad groups include Quaker Orthodox and Hicksite yearly and local meetings from New England to Indiana and "come-outer" societies such as the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends and Progressive Friends of Pennsylvania, as well as diverse abolitionist organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society and Liberty party.	1
Ryan offers a perceptive contextualized analysis of leading Friends' opposition to demands by William Lloyd Garrison and his allies for immediate abolition. The author briefly discusses the pathbreaking eighteenth-century antislavery movement among American Friends and their leadership in the early nineteenth century of gradualist organizations such as the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and support of some Quakers for the conservative American Colonization Society.	. . .

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