'To Renew the Covenant' : Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies)

In "To Renew the Covenant": Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that antislavery Quakers believed they were part of a covenant with God, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery.