When White & Black America Stood Up: Warriors for Freedom

It was a great role that White America played in the fight to terminate slavery. Not until relatively recent times that knowledge about White America helping to emancipate Black slaves was known  only by a small group of scholars. That active men such as Anthony Benezet, John Woolman and Isaac Norris    flourished for decades before the coming of most of the poor immigrants to this nation. These men, almost, have been ignored by historians. Some decades before this, as Dr. Windsor indicates in his informative book that the struggle against slavery in America began as early as 1675 by William Edmondson, a Quaker.

          In view of the fact that there has been a limited amount of literature on the contribution of White Americans to the abolition of slavery,  many people hold the false belief that whites had a very small participation in the abolitionist movement. It was not known, for example, that the underground railroad was organized in the South by a Quaker, that the Quakers organized the Anti-Slavery societies, and that there were many societies  in the United States of which most of these were in the Southern states. Now, an increasing corpus of literature is introducing the ethical history of the White Quakers and their contribution as Warriors for Freedom. Most of these Quakers came from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and England.  Those who read this book will find it  to be a delightful, noble and moral heritage.

For a long time, it was not known-for example-that there were prosperous black businessmen. But the author has now chosen to highlight several successful and wealthy members of the black race. Many of these successful Black men who gained their economic wealth lived in Philadelphia.

Finally, this book features an addendum section which deals with the problem of crime and single parent households in the Black community. Also, this section provides solutions to how we can control crime and other negative issues in our neighborhoods.