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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Supplement ... to the Journal of the Friends Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Pages : 430
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Bulletin of the Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: Friends' Historical Association
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
Author: Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Bulletin of Friends Historical Association
Author: Friends' Historical Association
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition
Author: Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A biography of the famous eighteenth-century Quaker whose abolitionist fervor and spiritual practice made him a model for generations of Americans John Woolman (1720–72) was perhaps the most significant American of his age, though he was not a famous politician, general, or man of letters, and never held public office. A humble Quaker tailor in New Jersey, he became a prophetic voice for the entire Anglo-American world when he denounced the evils of slavery in Quaker meetings, then in essays and his Journal, first published in 1774. In this illuminating new biography, Thomas P. Slaughter goes behind those famous texts to locate the sources of Woolman's political and spiritual power. Slaughter's penetrating work shows how this plainspoken mystic transformed himself into a prophetic, unforgettable figure. Devoting himself to extremes of self-purification—dressing only in white, refusing to ride horses or in horse-drawn carriages—Woolman might briefly puzzle people; but his preaching against slavery, rum, tea, silver, forced labor, war taxes, and rampant consumerism was infused with a benign confidence that ordinary people could achieve spiritual perfection, and this goodness gave his message persuasive power and enduring influence. Placing Woolman in the full context of his times, Slaughter paints the portrait of a hero—and not just for the Quakers, social reformers, labor organizers, socialists, and peace advocates who have long admired him. He was an extraordinary original, an American for the ages.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A biography of the famous eighteenth-century Quaker whose abolitionist fervor and spiritual practice made him a model for generations of Americans John Woolman (1720–72) was perhaps the most significant American of his age, though he was not a famous politician, general, or man of letters, and never held public office. A humble Quaker tailor in New Jersey, he became a prophetic voice for the entire Anglo-American world when he denounced the evils of slavery in Quaker meetings, then in essays and his Journal, first published in 1774. In this illuminating new biography, Thomas P. Slaughter goes behind those famous texts to locate the sources of Woolman's political and spiritual power. Slaughter's penetrating work shows how this plainspoken mystic transformed himself into a prophetic, unforgettable figure. Devoting himself to extremes of self-purification—dressing only in white, refusing to ride horses or in horse-drawn carriages—Woolman might briefly puzzle people; but his preaching against slavery, rum, tea, silver, forced labor, war taxes, and rampant consumerism was infused with a benign confidence that ordinary people could achieve spiritual perfection, and this goodness gave his message persuasive power and enduring influence. Placing Woolman in the full context of his times, Slaughter paints the portrait of a hero—and not just for the Quakers, social reformers, labor organizers, socialists, and peace advocates who have long admired him. He was an extraordinary original, an American for the ages.
The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I
Author: John Coffey
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ISBN: 019870223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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A study of the fragmented nature of post-Reformation English Protestentism and the Dissenters who offered theological alternatives to Anglican traditions through Presbyterianism, Baptism, and Quakerism. This book explains the spread of these Dissenting traditions and the adoption of religious pluralism as a result of Protestant nonconformity.
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ISBN: 019870223X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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A study of the fragmented nature of post-Reformation English Protestentism and the Dissenters who offered theological alternatives to Anglican traditions through Presbyterianism, Baptism, and Quakerism. This book explains the spread of these Dissenting traditions and the adoption of religious pluralism as a result of Protestant nonconformity.
Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
Author: Peter Rushton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441155015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English criminals, Quakers, gypsies, Native Americans, the Acadian French in Canada, rebellious African slaves, or vulnerable minorities like the Jews of St. Eustatius, were among those expelled and banished to another place. This book explores the legal and political development of this forced migration, focusing on the British Atlantic world between 1600 and 1800. The territories under British rule were not uniform in their policies, and not all practices were driven by instructions from London, or based on a clear legal framework. Using case studies of legal and political strategies from the Atlantic world, and drawing on accounts of collective experiences and individual narratives, the authors explore why victims were chosen for banishment, how they were transported and the impact on their lives. The different contexts of such banishment – internal colonialism ethnic and religious prejudice, suppression of religious or political dissent, or the savageries of war in Europe or the colonies – are examined to establish to what extent displacement, exile and removal were fundamental to the early British Empire.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441155015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English criminals, Quakers, gypsies, Native Americans, the Acadian French in Canada, rebellious African slaves, or vulnerable minorities like the Jews of St. Eustatius, were among those expelled and banished to another place. This book explores the legal and political development of this forced migration, focusing on the British Atlantic world between 1600 and 1800. The territories under British rule were not uniform in their policies, and not all practices were driven by instructions from London, or based on a clear legal framework. Using case studies of legal and political strategies from the Atlantic world, and drawing on accounts of collective experiences and individual narratives, the authors explore why victims were chosen for banishment, how they were transported and the impact on their lives. The different contexts of such banishment – internal colonialism ethnic and religious prejudice, suppression of religious or political dissent, or the savageries of war in Europe or the colonies – are examined to establish to what extent displacement, exile and removal were fundamental to the early British Empire.