The Pace of Manumission among Quakers in Revolutionary-Era North Carolina

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*Michael J. Crawford holds the doctorate in history from Boston University and is the author or editor of fourteen books, including The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina, and Seasons of Grace: Colonial New England’s Revival Tradition in Its British Context. He is the senior historian of the U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C. The Pace of Manumission among Quakers in Revolutionary-Era North Carolina