Warner 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.
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