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COOL CLASSES: "Quakers, War, and Slavery 1646-1723"
COOL CLASSES: “Quakers, War, and Slavery 1646-1723”
Taught by Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies David Harrington Watt, this seminar encourages students to analyze primary sources and secondary works to explore how and why early Friends came to see both war and slavery as immoral.
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Documents relating to Germantown Quaker protests against slavery from Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections. Photo: Patrick Montero.