Join Jennifer Gray, ASMHPT’s Education & Museum Manager, for ‘Quakers & Slavery: Equality with Caveats’, a special VIRTUAL presentation with The Peale.
The lecture will discuss the complicated history between Quakers and the Black members of their community. When asked, most visitors to the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia can quickly link the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) with abolition. However, support for abolition certainly varied between individuals, congregations, and geographic regions, and differences—sometimes stark—can be seen within these groups simultaneously. For generations, racial prejudice often prevailed alongside specific efforts to curb these injustices. “Quakers & Slavery: Equality with Caveats” will open a conversation about how Quakers during abolition interpreted the ideas of equality and equity in contrary ways.
This lecture is one of three sponsored by the Baltimore National Heritage Area and presented by The Peale. Additional lectures will be presented online on March 7 and April 25. All are presented for free. Catch up on past lectures on The Peale’s YouTube channel.