ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROGER N. KIRKMAN

Roger N. Kirkman comes from a Piedmont North Carolina family with Quaker roots going back more than 250 years. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and pursued Master’s studies in cartography and population geography. Roger was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the London Business School where he received honors in marketing and finance. 

As an active member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies at UNC and the Di-Phi Foundation Board, Roger developed a lifelong interest in history and genealogy. While researching his own family, he became interested in the Quakers who had navigated the perils of slavery during the early 1800’s. This book is an outcome of Roger’s extensive study and identifies those Quakers who were delegates to the North Carolina Manumission Society.

Roger works in multi-media communications and lives in Winston-Salem with his wife Connie. He continues his research in history and genealogy and welcomes contacts with descendants of the Quakers who are profiled in this book.

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Roger N. Kirkman is available to speak about the Manumission Society to groups and organizations. Previous speaking engagements include:

• “Breaking Every Yoke: North Carolina Quakers Confront Slavery” at the High Point Public Library

• "Breaking Every Yoke: North Carolina Anti-Slavery Friends & Their Times" at the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists (CQHA) joint conference with the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, England.

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