Ryan P. Jordan explores the limits of religious dissent in
antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing
reformers who tried peacefully to end slavery. In the years before
the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist
campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered
abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to
destroy civil and religious liberty. In response, many Quaker
abolitionists began to build "comeouter" institutions where social
and legal inequalities could be freely discussed, and where church
members could fuse religious worship with social activism. The
conflict between the Quakers and the Abolitionists highlights the
dilemma of liberal religion within a slaveholding republic.
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