Writings of Warner Mifflin - Mifflin, Warner
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This volume represents the written record of the America's most under-appreciated abolitionist, a man who became the conscience of the new nation in the aftermath of the American Revolution. In about 150 documents, readers will find the literary record of a man who devoted his life to that newly born nation, which he hoped to rescue from its continued embrace of slavery.

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This volume represents the written record of the America's most under-appreciated abolitionist, a man who became the conscience of the new nation in the aftermath of the American Revolution. In about 150 documents, readers will find the literary record of a man who devoted his life to that newly born nation, which he hoped to rescue from its continued embrace of slavery.
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GARY B. NASH is a professor of history emeritus and director emeritus of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1966. He has published many books and essays, including Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726; Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America; andThe Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution.   MICHAEL R. MCDOWELL, for more than fifteen years, has researched eighteenth-century Delaware Quaker Warner Mifflin’s antislavery activism using primary documents, including Mifflin’s extensive correspondence. McDowell has published articles on Mifflin and an early Delaware Quaker antislavery petition in Delaware publications.  WARNER MIFFLIN (August 21, 1745–October 16, 1798) was born in Virginia to a slaveholding Quaker family. He moved to Delaware in 1769 and later established himself as a prominent abolitionist.