Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Northampton County, Virginia, 1632-1802
Author: James Handley Marshall
Publisher: New England History Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780897251631
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Author: James Handley Marshall
Publisher: New England History Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780897251631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary B. Nash
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 081229436X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.
Author: Library of Virginia
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1118
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 534
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 780
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 1382
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdmund Scarborough was born 15 December 1584 in North Walsham, Norfolk, England. He married Hannah Butler. He died in 1635 in Magothy Bay, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia.
Author: Virginia State Library and Archives
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 86
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 588
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