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Includes writings about Quakers by the following authors: Gerald Bullett -- George Fox -- William Penn -- Joseph Besse - William Sewel -- Mary Penington -- Thomas Ellwood -- Horatio Rogers -- Daniel Roberts -- Rufus M. Jones -- Isaac Penington -- Margaret Fell -- Robert Barclay -- John Bellers -- Jonathan Dymond -- John Woolman -- Voltaire -- Hector St. John de Crèvecœur -- Thomas Carlyle -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Elizabeth Fry -- Joseph Clark...
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From the Publisher: Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect challenging the status quo, the Quakers are now best known for their anti-slavery activities, their principled stance against war, and their pioneering work in penal reform. Famous Quakers include Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Lucretia...
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"Helen Thomas' family were Quakers. Her ancestors, among the original settlers of Maryland, bankrupted themselves in 1810 by freeing some hundred slaves. Exiled from plantation life, they settled in Baltimore where they regained prosperity and aristocratic position. Helen's father played an important role in establishing The Johns Hopkins University and its Medical School, and Bryn Mawr College, of which Helen's older sister, Carey, became president....
11) The Quakers
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A survey of the Quaker movement from 1650 to 1987 for those seeking to understand the origins and evolution of the Society of Friends. Part Two provides biographies of those people whose lives and actions particularly shaped American Quakerism.
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"In Slave in a Box, M.M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old South slave reality and mythology, through reinterpretations during Reconstruction and in minstrel shows and turn-of-the-century advertisements, to Aunt Jemima's symbolic role in the Civil Rights movement and her present incarnation as a "working grandmother." The...
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