Jim Fussell

I will be the Kenneth L Carroll Scholar in residence at Pendle Hill in the Spring of 2026.
This is a great honor especially because I knew Ken (1924-2021) at Third Haven Friends Meeting and visited him in Easton, MD several times in 2019 before COVID made that no longer possible.

YouTube video by Friends Journal Quakers Enslaved Women's Arson in 1750

Did you see last week's article on the Black men and women who challenged colonial Quakers to acknowledge the sinfulness of participating in the slave economy? Here's the author, @jimfussell.bsky.social, sharing the story of two enslaved women for whom angry words were not enough.

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.