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“Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavers in Colonial Pennsylvania” by Jim Fussell
Tuesday, February 10th at 7:00PM on Zoom
Presentation by Jim Fussell, Scholar in Residence at Pendle Hill Quaker Center, Wallingford, PA
In a time when historical exhibits about slavery are being altered and dismantled, Jim Fussell, spring 2026 scholar in residence at Pendle Hill, will highlight how enslaved Black people in Pennsylvania challenged colonial-era Quaker enslavers through escape, arson, confrontation, and self-advocacy. Their actions, spanning 1725 to 1781, reshaped Quaker and Pennsylvania history from the ground up.
Centering Stenton as a site of lived struggle, the presentation invites participants to reconsider familiar narratives about Quakers. Close readings of runaway notices, court records, and other documents reveal the persistent acts of Black agency and resistance.
This program is part of Stenton’s Wrestling With Justice: Quakers and Northern Slavery Project, supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
