Join us on Zoom this Sunday, March 27, 4-5:30 

The struggle for Virginia and Maryland Quakers to unify against the owning of enslaved peoples was a process that took over 100 years. Jim Fussell, a BYM historian, shares some slices of that struggle in his presentation Black Resistance in Quaker Enslaver Households in Maryland and Virginia: He will explore examples and patterns of ‘slave resistance” by Black people enslaved by white Quaker enslavers. These actions helped precipitate an internal crisis and struggle among Chesapeake Region Quakers, who eventually disallowed slaveholders from remaining in membership as Quakers. 

This workshop is one of four presentations created by BYM Quaker historian, Jim Fussell, as a way of marking the 350 Anniversary of BYM. 

Link will be sent out later in the week on Newslist