Quakers, Slavery and Climate Change
June 18, 2014 § Leave a comment
I’m speaking in York on Monday 21 July.
Quakers, Slavery and Climate Change
Learning from 18th Century American Friends’ journey to abolitionism: parallels for our responses to climate change
This is as a result of some personal research I’ve been doing over the last couple of years. My aim has been to examine how an organisation and its communities made a fundamental internal change over an issue which every member was connected to, directly or simply as a citizen of a society in which slavery was embedded. I hope that there is enough similarity between the two contexts to draw some useable suggestions for approaches and ways forward, today, in responding to climate change.
Chaired by Danielle Walker, Director, Friends Provident Foundation
Monday 21 July, 7.30 pm, Friargate Quaker Meeting House, Friargate, York, YO1 9RL
Copy of my paper here: Quakers, Slavery and Climate Change.
Contact me for more information or to respond to the paper: 07986 016804, john@johngray.org.uk
John Gray 
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