Call Number:

MC.975.07.063

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.13 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

"George Fox, Quakers, Negroes, and Slavery on Barbados, 1671-1675" (HC.MC.975.07.063), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1946 (inclusive)

Creator:

Manice, Edward A.

Form:

manuscripts (documents)

Abstract:

Edward A. Manice's "George Fox, Quakers, Negroes, and Slavery on Barbados 1671-1675" describes the ways in which Quakers in Philadelphia and surrounding areas engaged with slavery in Barbados in the 17th century. The manuscript was written as an essay for Manice's senior history class at Yale University.

George Fox (1624-1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. George Fox was born in Dreyton-in-the-Clay, now called Fenny Drayton, in Leicestershire, England in 1624. He was the son of Christopher Fox, a weaver, and Mary Lago Fox.

Fox left Drayton-in-the-clay in 1643, to travel around the country as his religious beliefs began to take shape. In 1647, Fox began to preach publicly. Fox married Margaret Fell in 1669. His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries. Between these tours, he was imprisoned for more than a year. He spent the final decade of his life working in London to organize the expanding Quaker movement. George Fox died in 1691.

Edward A. Manice graduated from Yale University in 1945.

This collection is comprised of the single carbon copy manuscript of Edward A. Manice's "George Fox, Quakers, Negroes, and Slavery on Barbados 1671-1675." The manuscript describes the ways in which Quakers in Philadelphia and surrounding areas engaged with slavery in Barbados in the 17th century. The manuscript was written as an essay for Manice's senior history class at Yale University.