Excerpt from The Southern Friend, 2007, Vol. 29 Indeed, between 1804 and the 18203'there seems to have been little antislavery. Activity in the region. And those Friends who wished to push the Society towards more active measures found a tepid response. For example, when William Hartshorne pushed the Alexandria Monthly Meeting to embrace the idea of free produce eschewing all products produced by slave labor his suggestion was shuffled off to a committee and disappeared.6 In the meantime, however, the nature of the local African American community changed significantly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.