Minding the time: Simon Webb on an ‘esteemed’ Quaker of Delaware

20 Jan 2022 | by Simon Webb

‘The Coopers were black, and black people knew that they were at risk of capture.’

‘Recent articles have explored how Quakers who had enslaved labourers often attempted to influence them after manumission.’ | Photo: Artistic interpretation of the Cooper farmstead, by Edward Gonzalez-Tennant,

In May 1811, Aaron Cooper was abducted from his home in Kent County, Delaware. Five men came out of the night, tied him up with ropes and carried him off, leaving behind his wife Hetty and their three children.

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