Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Business / Quaker History

Business/Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition/Barclays to Brooklyn: No ‘Blood money’ here/Brooklyn Papers/Brooklyn/NY/USA/8-Feb-07//“The wealthy Quaker merchant David Barclay led a delegation of Friends [Quakers] to the Board of Trade in the spring of 1773 in a behind-closed-doors ...

Business/Quaker History/Slavery/Barclay, David/Taking it to the bank/New York Daily News/New York/NY/USA/5-Feb-07//Barclays also pointed out that one of its early partners, David Barclay, was a committed abolitionist and an anti-slavery Quaker. ...
It added: "The Quaker family expressed their creativity and conscience on this site and their achievements should provide inspiration for the site's future development."...

Business/Quaker History/Barclay, David/Barclays feels heat in NY/The Nation Newspaper/Barbados/Caribbean/13-Feb-07//For one thing, said Peter Truell, a Barclays spokesman, David Barclay, an early founder of a Quaker bank in the 1770s that came together to establish ...

Business/Quaker History/Creativity/Rowntree, Joseph/Nestle site blueprint is unveiled/York Press/York/England/UK/14-Feb-07//"The very name Rowntree will potentially attract a lot of interest in any scheme to redevelop this area."

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