Episode 3: "A History of Quakers in the Piedmont and Their Stories" with Max L Carter, Ph.D.

Max L. Carter, Ph.D., William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College (emeritus) The Slave Deeds of Guilford County Community Interview Series Released: March 6, 2020 ____________________________________________ Interview Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:58 How did Quakers get to Piedmont area? From Nantucket, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Anti Slavery Sentiment 3:05 1688- The Germantown Remanstance: Would any of 'US' like to be enslaved? 5:25 1700's Friends Concerns About Institution of Slavery Grow 6:39 Benjamin Lay, Guerilla Theatre and Roots of Quakers Coming to North Carolina 10:19 Quakers in the Piedmont Engaging the Complexities of Slavery: The Case of Benjamin Benson 1817 13:06 Vetal Coffin, George Swain and Underground Railroad in Piedmont 1820 14:41 Manumission Societies in North Carolina 15:24 The Coffin Family: Underground Railroad, Free Labor Stores and Harriet Beacher Stowe 18:11 Levi and Catherine Coffin and the Morality of the "False Bottom" Wagon 20:37 Max's Ancestors Robert Cooke and Elizabeth Johnson: Fidelity to Human Values 22:41 Levi Coffin and Appeals to Religion 26:10 Vestal Coffin and John Dimrey in New Garden 1819 31:21 "Let Us Now Try What Love Will Do" Persecuted Quakers, George Fox, William Penn and Native Americans 37:56 Quakers are Non-Creedal, We Tell "Stories" to Inform Our Ethics 39:10 "Who We Are" and "The Stories We Tell" Quaker Leadership: An Inspiring Model For Today 41:45 Credits ____________________________________________ Music: Blood and Bones - Our Native Daughters