Warner Mifflin Author

GARY B. NASH is a professor of history emeritus and director emeritus of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1966. He has published many books and essays, including Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726; Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America; andThe Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution.
 
MICHAEL R. MCDOWELL, for more than fifteen years, has researched eighteenth-century Delaware Quaker Warner Mifflin’s antislavery activism using primary documents, including Mifflin’s extensive correspondence. McDowell has published articles on Mifflin and an early Delaware Quaker antislavery petition in Delaware publications. 

WARNER MIFFLIN (August 21, 1745–October 16, 1798) was born in Virginia to a slaveholding Quaker family. He moved to Delaware in 1769 and later established himself as a prominent abolitionist.