Mack Thompson

Moses Brown renounced the Baptist faith for quakerism. He found that the traditions of social responsibility in his family and in Quakerism itself were incompatible with withdrawal. He became a reluctant participant and eventually a leader in many reform movements--crusades against slavery and war; efforts to provide education for the underprivileged, for orphans, and for Negroes; and programs of what we would now call urban redevelopment and public health.