A Conversation with Arch Street Friends Meeting about Africans Enslaved by Quakers

Quaker Avis Wanda McClinton founded the 339 Manumissions and Beyond
Project to find out what happened to the people promised manumission
(freedom) from slavery by enslavers from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
There are 339 manumission documents signed by Quaker enslavers in the
Quaker and Special Collections at the Haverford College Library, some of
which were signed by members of Arch Street Meeting.
Avis Wanda will be presenting about this spirit-led reparative genealogical
project with members of her team that includes people descended from
both the enslaved and the enslavers. Donations to our project are managed
by the Friends Fiduciary Corporation, through a donor advised fund.
Howard University is the coordinating sponsor and repository for the
findings of the project.
We invite you to join us to talk about how we can move forward with our
project, whose goal is to research the genealogy of the 413 enslaved
people named in the 339 manumission documents at the Haverford
College Library so that their descendants, many of whom must still live in
the Philadelphia area, can have access to their family history.