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This work compiles letters, essays, court petitions, legal documents, and other material written by abolitionist and antislavery activism Warner Mifflin, an 18th-century Quaker in Delaware. Contributors in history provide annotations, section introductions, and an introduction surveying Mifflin’s life. With an emphasis on his writings against slaveholding and slave trading, the book sheds light on his contributions to making Kent County, Delaware, a safe place for free blacks, and his efforts lobbying at the state and federal levels. In addition to material written by Mifflin from 1766 through the 1790s, the book includes a final section of death notices and other material related to his death, written from 1798 to 1799. B&w historical illustrations and maps are included. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.


In The Writings of Warner Mifflin: Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era Gary B. Nash and Michael R. McDowell present the correspondence, petitions and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans—schoolbooks ignore him, academic historians barely nod at him; the public knows him not at all--Mifflin has been brought to life in Gary B. Nash’s recent biography, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of a conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed “restitution” to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as well as the halls of the Continental Congress and the First and Second Federal Congresses. An opening introduction and introductions to each of the five chronologically arranged parts of the book provide context for the documents and a narrative of the life of this remarkable American.
List of Figures
xiii
Editorial Apparatus xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1(16)
Part One Before the Revolution
17(20)
Warner Mifflin's First Deed of Manumission, ca. mid-1766
25(1)
To John Pemberton, September 22, 1774
26(3)
Warner Mifflin's Second Deed of Manumission, October 22, 1774
29(3)
Warner Mifflin's Third Deed of Manumission, January 9, 1775
32(5)
Part Two The Revolutionary Years
37(112)
Warner Mifflin's Freedom Pass for Manumitted Slave, February 15, 1777
46(1)
To Unknown Friend, October 16, 1778
47(2)
To Alexander Huston, January 17, 1779
49(9)
Mifflin's Statement Concerning His Refusal to Use and Circulate Continental Currency, August, 1779
58(10)
From Rebecca Jones, August, 1779
68(3)
To Nicholas Waln, December 1780
71(3)
To Henry Drinker, January 11, 1781
74(2)
To Moses Brown, July 26, 1781
76(4)
To John Willis, Elias Hicks, and Others, July 26, 1781
80(3)
To French Naval Officers at Newport, Rhode Island, after August 6, 1781
83(2)
To James Pemberton, August 26?, 1781
85(2)
To John Pemberton, August 26, 1781
87(2)
To Moses Brown, October 3, 1781
89(3)
To Thomas McKean, November 5, 1781
92(7)
From David Cooper, December 1781
99(3)
To John Pemberton, December 5, 1781
102(1)
Some Remarks Proposed for the Consideration of the People of Virginia, and Particularly of Those in the Legislature and Executive Powers of Government, ca. May 1782
103(7)
To the Speaker and House of Delegates in Virginia, The Memorial of a Committee of the People Called Quakers, May 29, 1782
110(2)
To John Parrish, August 18, 1782
112(4)
To Henry Drinker, September 8, 1782
116(4)
To John Parrish, October 31, 1782
120(3)
To John Parrish, January 6, 1783
123(2)
To James Pemberton, January 6, 1783
125(2)
To James Pemberton, January 19, 1783
127(2)
To Henry Drinker, January 19, 1783
129(2)
To Nicholas Van Dyke, July 16, 1783
131(3)
To the United States in Congress Assembled, The Address of the People Called Quakers, October 4, 1783
134(2)
To John Parrish, October 12, 1783
136(1)
To Nathanael Greene, October 21, 1783
137(6)
From Nathanael Greene, late November 1783
143(3)
To John Parrish, November 4, 1783
146(3)
Part Three After the Revolution
149(114)
To James Pemberton, December 9, 1783
158(4)
To John Parrish, December 14, 1783
162(2)
To John Parrish, May 13, 1784
164(1)
To James Pemberton, August 17, 1784
165(3)
To John Parrish, August 27, 1784
168(2)
To Henry Drinker?, November 16, 1784
170(1)
To James Pemberton, December 11, 1784
171(5)
To James Pemberton, January 16, 1785
176(1)
To James Pemberton, February 16, 1785
177(4)
To John Parrish, August 22, 1785
181(2)
To the General Assembly of the Delaware State~The Memorial and Address of the People Call'd Quakers Inhabitants of This State, December 27, 1785
183(3)
To Daniel Mifflin, June 6, 1786
186(3)
To John Dickinson, August 11, 1786
189(2)
To Governor William Smallwood, August 31, 1786
191(6)
To James Pemberton, December 12, 1786
197(6)
To James Pemberton, February 3, 1787
203(4)
To John Parrish, February 9, 1787
207(4)
To John Parrish, April 30, 1787
211(2)
To Abigail Parrish, May 13, 1787
213(1)
To Abigail Parrish, June 4, 1787
214(2)
To John Parrish, June 19, 1787
216(3)
To John Parrish, June 29, 1787
219(2)
To the Archbishop of Canterbury, June 30, 1787
221(16)
To John Parrish, July 6, 1787
237(1)
Testimonial for Negro Grace Hicks, August 8, 1787
238(1)
To Edward Stabler?, October 14, 1787
239(2)
To Moses Brown, December 3, 1787
241(3)
To John Parrish, December 13, 1787
244(7)
To Thomas McKean, December 14, 1787
251(3)
To John Parrish, December 16, 1787
254(1)
To James Pemberton, December 21, 1787
255(8)
Part Four The Early Republic
263(252)
To John Parrish, April 5, 1788
278(1)
To John Parrish, April 16, 1788
279(2)
To John Parrish, April 19, 1788
281(2)
To John Parrish, May 11, 1788
283(2)
To James Pemberton, May 28, 1788
285(4)
To John Parrish, June 23, 1788
289(2)
To James Pemberton, November 17, 1788
291(2)
To John Parrish, November 19, 1788
293(2)
To John Parrish, November 29, 1788
295(2)
To James Pemberton, December 29, 1788
297(4)
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, ca. late 1788
301(1)
To William Tilghman, February 24, 1789
302(2)
Appointment of Committee by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Prepare an Antislavery Petition to Congress, September 29, 1789
304(2)
Memorial of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Congress, October 3, 1789
306(3)
Appointment of Committee to Present Petition to Congress, October 3, 1789
309(1)
To James Pemberton, December 28, 1789
309(2)
To Henry Drinker, February 1790
311(1)
Testimony to the House of Representatives Select Committee, February 15, 1790
311(3)
To Abiel Foster, Chairman of the House Select Committee, ca. February 17--26, 1790
314(2)
Queries Addressed to the House Select Committee, March 2, 1790
316(2)
To William Loughton Smith, March 10, 1790
318(5)
To President George Washington, March 12, 1790
323(2)
To Members of Congress, March 16, 1790
325(2)
To John Parrish, April 10, 1790
327(2)
To George Thatcher, May 4, 1790
329(1)
To Members of the House of Representatives, June 2, 1790
330(5)
To Henry Drinker, June 3, 1790
335(2)
From George Thatcher, June 12, 1790
337(1)
To Henry Drinker?, June 15, 1790
338(1)
To Benjamin Rush, June 19, 1790
339(2)
From Henry Drinker, July 15, 1790
341(2)
To George Washington, February 20, 1791
343(4)
To the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Meeting for Sufferings, June 30, 1791
347(2)
To Henry Drinker, July 14, 1791
349(1)
To John Parrish, October 10, 1791
350(4)
To the General Assembly of the Delaware State: The Petition and Address of Warner Mifflin, October 18, 1791
354(5)
To the Delaware Constitutional Convention, December 22, 1791
359(2)
To the General Convention of the Delaware State, December 27, 1791
361(4)
From Joseph Galloway, April 10, 1792
365(2)
To John Parrish, May 6, 1792
367(2)
To the Delaware Constitutional Convention, May 23, 1792
369(3)
To Henry Drinker, June 27, 1792
372(4)
To Henry Drinker, August 6, 1792
376(2)
To the President, Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States. The Address of the People Called Quakers, November 17, 1792
378(3)
To President Washington and Congress, November 23, 1792
381(4)
To George Washington, December 12, 1792
385(3)
To John Parrish, January 21, 1793
388(1)
A Serious Expostulation with the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, Philadelphia, 1793
389(10)
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Delaware State, January 24, 1793
399(1)
To the King of Spain, April 29, 1793
400(4)
To Moses Brown, June 15, 1793
404(1)
To George Thatcher, July 10, 1793
405(2)
To John Parrish, December 2, 1793
407(1)
To the Citizens of the United States from the American Convention of Abolitionist Societies, January 6, 1794
408(3)
To Moses Brown, January 24, 1794
411(3)
To John Parrish, January 24, 1794
414(2)
"Awful Considerations On the Probability of Judgments Coming On the Land Because of the Injuries Attending Slavery of Fellow-Men," July 10, 1794
416(5)
To Susanna Mifflin, November 2, 1794
421(2)
To Henry Drinker, November 12, 1794
423(2)
To Henry Drinker and Thomas Morris, November 24, 1794
425(2)
Mifflin Petition as Next Friend of Jonathan Negroe, December 3, 1794
427(2)
To Henry Drinker, December 14, 1794
429(1)
To Henry Drinker, January 21, 1795
430(1)
To John Parrish, May 17, 1795
431(2)
To the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, November 1795
433(2)
To Henry Drinker, December 30, 1795
435(3)
Mifflin's Resolution on Kidnapping of Free Blacks for Consideration of the Delaware Senate and House of Representatives, February 5, 1796
438(1)
To John Parrish, February 13, 1796
439(4)
To Moses Brown, March 26, 1796
443(2)
To John Parrish, April 9, 1796
445(1)
The Defence of Warner Mifflin Against Aspersions Cast on Him on Account of His Endeavours to Promote Righteousness, Mercy, and Peace among Mankind, Philadelphia, 1796
446(22)
To Henry Drinker, September 4, 1796
468(2)
To John Parrish, April 16, 1797
470(2)
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress, September 28, 1797
472(3)
From Henry Drinker, November 15, 1797
475(3)
To John Parrish, November 25, 1797
478(1)
To John Parrish and Thomas Stewardson, December 3, 1797
479(3)
From the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Committee to the House Committee of Fifth Congress, January 22, 1798
482(2)
To John Parrish, February 21, 1798
484(3)
To Henry Drinker, ca. March 25, 1798
487(2)
To Henry Drinker, April 1, 1798
489(1)
To Henry Drinker, May 4, 1798
490(1)
To Henry Drinker, June 16, 1798
491(1)
To Henry Drinker, June 26, 1798
492(3)
To His Children, July 7, 1798
495(1)
From Samuel Hopkins, July 28, 1798
496(5)
To John Parrish, September 30, 1798
501(3)
To John Adams, September 24, 1798
504(4)
From George Churchman and Jacob Lindley to John Adams, January 17, 1801
508(3)
From John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, January 24, 1801
511(2)
To John Parrish, undated but probably 1790s
513(2)
Part Five In Memoriam
515(40)
Death Notice, October 22, 1798
521(1)
Death Notice, October 23, 1798
521(1)
A Brief Account of the Late Warner Mifflin: In a Letter to His Sons Samuel Emlen and Lemuel Mifflin, October 25, 1799
522(9)
Testimony of Motherkiln Monthly Meeting
531(2)
Testimony Concerning Warner Mifflin, by His Intimate Friend and Survivor, George Churchman
533(4)
Richard Allen Testimony for Warner Mifflin, 1799
537(2)
Published Works Cited
539(16)
Acknowledgments 555(4)
Index 559
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 was co-director of the National History Standards Project in United States and World History and editor of the standards first published in 1994 with a revised edition in 1996. Nash served as President of the Organization of American Historians in 1994-95 and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Society of American Historians. He was a member of the National Park Service Second Century Commission, which published its report to the U.S. President and Congress in 2010. He also coauthored Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service (2012). He has published many books and essays in his fields of Early American History, African American History, and Native American History. Among them are Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968); Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America, also published in Spanish, 7 editions (1974, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2015); The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979); Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 (1989); Race and Revolutions (1993); Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Pennsylvania, 1690-1840, co-author (1994); History on Trial: Culture Wars, and the Teaching of the Past, co-author (1998); Forbidden Love: The Hidden History of Mixed-Race America (1999; revised ed., 2010); First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2002); African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, with Clay Carson and Emma Lapsansky (2005); The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005); The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006); Friends of Liberty: Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal in the New Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Tadeuz Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull, with Graham Hodges (2008); The Liberty Bell (2010); Revolutionary Founders, coedited with Alfred Young and Ray Raphael (2012); and Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). He currently resides in Pacific Palisades, California.   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 is a member of the board of the historic Hale-Byrnes House in Delaware and has published articles on Mifflin and an early Delaware Quaker antislavery petition in Delaware publications. He has also given presentations on Warner Mifflin's antislavery activism at Camden Delaware Friends Meeting (2005), Newark Delaware Friends Meeting (2015), and as a part of a 2013 symposium in Wilmington, "Let This Voice be Heard: 18th Century Abolitionists." McDowell also presented "Laying the Track for the Underground Railroad: Warner Mifflin's Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Legacy in the Delmarva Peninsula" at the 2016 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference. He currently resides in Newark, Delaware.