1859 antique PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS Longwood pa SLAVERY WOMEN RIGHTS Quaker BOOKLET For Sale

1859 antique PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS Longwood pa SLAVERY WOMEN RIGHTS Quaker BOOKLET
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Original 1859 Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, held at Longwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Printed in New York by John T. Trow, Printer, 377 & 379 Broadway.

Measures approximately 6 x 9 inches and contains 72 numbered pages.

This is a particularly content-rich pre-Civil War reform publication documenting the seventh Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends. The meeting brought together reform-minded Friends and other progressive religious figures and addressed major social, religious, political, and humanitarian questions of the period.

The table of contents lists extensive Testimonies on:

• War

Additional sections include:

• The Relations of Capital and Labor
• “The Fall of Man” — an essay by Angelina Weld
• Extensive correspondence from Progressive Friends and reformers
• Proceedings and minutes of the four-day meeting
• Exposition of Sentiments
• Discussions concerning religious freedom and reform
• Women’s equality and marriage rights
• Prison and criminal-justice reform
• Anti-slavery and racial equality
• Land, labor, wealth and monopoly
• Peace and anti-war testimony

The Slavery testimony is especially notable. It condemns slavery, discusses the status of free Black Americans, calls for Pennsylvania legislation against kidnapping free people into slavery, and criticizes the pro-slavery character of the U.S. Constitution as then interpreted.

The Caste section discusses racial discrimination and the treatment and education of Black children.

The Marriage testimony specifically addresses the position of women, declaring the equality of the sexes and a woman\'s right to control her own person.

The volume also contains correspondence or material associated with numerous prominent 19th-century reform figures, including Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oliver Johnson, Joseph A. Dugdale, Angelina Weld, Samuel Johnson, James Freeman Clarke, A. D. Mayo, Daniel Ricketson, and others.

One especially interesting portion is the printed communication from Angelina Weld, dated Eagleswood, New Jersey, April 26, 1857, followed by her essay “The Fall of Man.”

The proceedings also include a memorial addressed to President James Buchanan concerning the treatment of Native Americans.

The front cover bears an old handwritten ownership inscription that appears to read “J. Lundy, Bordentown” or similar; please examine the photograph and make your own determination.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

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