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Avis Wanda McClinton is co-leader of \u201cThe 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project.” Photo courtesy of Avis Wanda McClinton.<\/p><\/div>\n

For centuries, Quakers have been known for pacifism, teetotaling and opposing slavery. But an upcoming free public lecture at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will detail how some Quakers amassed great wealth on the whip-scarred backs of kidnapped Africans forced into slavery.<\/p>\n

\u201cA group of local Quakers took interest in \u2018The 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project\u2019 based in greater Philadelphia and reached out to the UTC History Department about the possibility of partnering on a public event here in Chattanooga,\u201d said Dr. Michael Thompson, a UC Foundation associate professor of history whose courses include the antebellum American South and slavery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe History Department proudly partners with many community groups to not only provide our students with internship and research opportunities, but also to support educational initiatives that aim to address tough issues and better our local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presentation \u201cThe 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project: A Reparative Search for Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans\u201d will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Guerry Center Reading Room, 715 Oak St. on campus at UTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project\u201d is a research and educational effort in response to the release of newly digitized manumission documents at Haverford College, located just outside Philadelphia. \u201cManumission\u201d refers to the legal document that freed enslaved people from bondage. The Quaker and Special Collections archive contains documents for 339 enslaved Africans who were freed between 1765 and 1790 by slaveholding families who belonged to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) of the Religious Society of Friends, the central organizing body for Quaker meetings for parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s goal is \u201cto be a restorative, healing force that connects modern descendants with their enslaved ancestors, and to understand the lives of these first generations of \u2018freemen,\u2019\u201d the project states.<\/p>\n

Project co-leader Avis Wanda McClinton of the Philadelphia area is working to discover what happened to these 339 \u201cchildren of God\u201d and to find their descendants. McClinton was the first and only Quaker at her home congregation in the township of Upper Dublin, near Philadelphia, and will be one of the presenters. McClinton has led efforts to create monuments to manumitted slaves to make sure they are never forgotten.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about us straightening up American history,\u201d McClinton said in a phone interview. \u201cThis is God\u2019s work. I feel led to do it but sometimes I think I don\u2019t have what it takes to do this job: How to bring humanity and some dignity to them? That\u2019s what keeps me up at night.\u201d<\/p>\n

McClinton said she has been physically and verbally attacked for her efforts by fellow Quakers, but the former steelworker said she is undeterred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite people of Quakerism have pushed back on me for airing dirty laundry. We\u2019re not supposed to talk about race or racism during worship. \u2026 Once I found that Quakers had [formerly] enslaved people in their graveyards, I made up an ad hoc group of friends to say let\u2019s find more of these.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haverford contacted McClinton after digitizing their records, said David Satten-L\u00f3pez, a 2021 Spectrum Scholar and the former Morris Evans Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Haverford College, where he led the school\u2019s first iteration of the website manumissions.haverford.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David Satten-L\u00f3pez<\/p><\/div>\n

The next step, said Satten-L\u00f3pez\u2014who will be presenting historical evidence alongside McClinton\u2014is to partner with Howard University in Washington, D.C., and research its manumission documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is part of really looking at the more complicated, real history of our country,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though this group was one of the first American religious groups to be abolitionists, the Quakers had a very conflicted history leading up to that. There were fights, debates and discussions about this. This is always a difficult process for the white community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward and toward the partnership with Howard and getting this history out there. It\u2019s often been of the most interest to the Quaker community, but we want to bring it back to the African American community. To do that with descendants of those enslaved would be amazing,\u201d Satten-L\u00f3pez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo repair is to fix what was broken,\u201d the project\u2019s mission states. There were three aspects of Quakers and slavery: First was the violent capture and removal of people from their homes in Africa, stripping them of their freedom, families and culture. The second was wealthy Quakers\u2019 exploitation of enslaved people, and the third was their refusal to allow freed slaves into the religion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we celebrate that Quakers came to recognize the humanity of these enslaved people and the immorality of participating in the institution of slavery \u2026 the damage from these breaks comes down to us today, as people whose ancestors were enslaved are cut off from their family histories, and Quakers continue to struggle with full participation by people of African descent in their church,\u201d the project states. \u201cOur Quaker-led project is a reparative project as we seek to restore the family histories of those descended from people enslaved by Quakers and answer the question of what happened to these newly freed Americans and how they survived?\u201d<\/p>\n

The UTC presentation is spearheaded by local Quakers with the Chattanooga Friends Meeting of which Laura Seeger has been a member for nearly 20 years. She is the clerk of its ad hoc committee for the 339 Manumissions presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Religious Society of Friends (better known as Quakers) has a history\/reputation of being abolitionists,\u201d Seeger said. \u201cWhile there is some truth to this\u2014it is not the whole story. When Quakers first came to this country, many benefited from the slave trade. I think it is important that we acknowledge our whole history\u2014not just the parts that make us look good. I hope through this presentation we can talk more honestly about history, specifically Quakers\u2019 role and how we might approach reparative justice for the descendants of folks that were enslaved by Quakers [and make] steps in the right direction to a more just and loving society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a><\/strong> to register for the event. For questions or additional information, contact chattanoogafriendsmeeting@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presentation \u201cThe 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project: A Reparative Search for Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans\u201d will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Guerry Center Reading Room, 715 Oak St. on campus at UTC. \u201cThe 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project\u201d is a research and educational effort in response to the release of newly digitized manumission documents at Haverford College, located just outside Philadelphia. <\/p>\n

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