The African-Americans and American Women's Human Rights: Thoughts of the Quaker Figures in their Works

Abstract

This article examines Quaker figures' thoughts as conveyed in their works, such as letters, essays, and pamphlets. The Quakers mentioned are John Woolman, John Whittier, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Chandler. The theoretical underpinnings for this article are the qualitative method, an interdisciplinary notion, and grounded theory. Slavery of African-Americans and female subordination in America were found to be practices that violated human rights and did not align with Christianity's essential teachings, which advocated love for all human beings regardless of natural differences such as race, skin color, ethnicity, nationality, and gender. Quaker personalities' perspectives on these two topics are fundamentally an extension of their conviction in Quakerism, which teaches the presence of God in every human conscience, known as the Inner Light, Inward Light, or Christ Within. Quakers believed that everyone had the same and equal potential in their connection with God. Therefore through this article we can find the deep thoughts of the American Quaker figures to be frontiers of human rights enforcement in United States as a milestone for global peace.