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Quakers and Slavery, 1657-1865:
An International Interdisciplinary Conference

Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 November 2010

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Swarthmore College
Haverford College

Keynote Speakers:

Gary B Nash (UCLA), Jerry Frost (Swarthmore), James Walvin (York)

  Anthony Benezet offering instruction at his school in Philadelphia

  This major international, interdisciplinary conference aims to examine the history, literature, and culture of the Quaker relationship with slavery, from the society’s origins in the English Civil War to the end of the American Civil War.
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