American Colonies

The Settling Of North America

BY ALAN TAYLOR
Transcending the usual Anglo-centric version of our colonial past, this book recovers the importance of Native American tribes, enslaved Africans, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, "American Colonies" reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by the interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. Many references to the role played by Quakers.

Penguin 2002 544 PP. Paper

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Authority And The Early Quakers

BY JACK DOBBS
Early Quakers recognized neither the bible, nor the church , and certainly not the state, as their supreme authority. They claimed the spirit of Christ, the inward light, as the authority in which they placed their absolute trust. They believed that if only they could understand it, that spirit could give unity to a Quaker meeting as it jointly searched for the will of god. Dobbs looks at these ideas and how they began and changed in the early years of Quakerism.

Martin Hartog 2006 269 PP. Paper

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Back To Africa

Benjamin Coates And The Colonization Movement In America, 1848-1880

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON AND EMMA LAPSANSKY
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in 19th century America. A Quaker from Philadelphia, he was committed to helping Black Americans relocate to West Africa. At the heart of the volume is a collection of over 150 recently recovered letters, either written by Coates or addressed to him between 1848 and 1880. Lapsansky and Bacon have provided a far-reaching essay that places them in the context. They led a team of young scholars who annotated the letters. This book provide new insight into the alliances and divisions within the antislavery movement, making it essential reading for every student of black studies or Quaker history.

Penn State Press 2005 385 PP. Cloth

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The Beginnings Of Quakerism To 1660

BY WILLIAM BRAITHWAITE
Standard history of the early days of the Quaker movement, based largely on the writings of the first Friends. Second edition revised by Henry J. Cadbury.

Sessions 1981 607 PP. Cloth

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Biographical Dictionary Of British Quakers

In Commerce & Industry 1775 -1920

COMPILED BY EDWARD MILLIGAN
Many years in the making, the former librarian and archivist at Friends House in London has garnered and written 2,800 biographies of Friends active in industry or commerce. The large double columned pages mean this really is a treasure house of information for historians and genealogists. Indexed by occupation, place, apprentice master, and school attended. 8 appendices and 50 pages of illustrations.

Sessions 2007 605 PP. Paper

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Bury The Chains

Prophets And Rebels In The Fight To Free An Empire's Slaves

BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD
In 1787, twelve men Quaker and Episcopalian gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This talented group combined a hatred of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause. By the 1830's they had seen the end of slavery in the British Empire.

Mariner 2005 468 PP. Paper

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Daughters Of Light

Quaker Women Preaching And Prophesying In The Colonies And Abroad, 1700-1775

BY REBECCA LARSON
"With meticulous scholarship and graceful style, Rebecca Larson tells the story of the eighteenth century Quaker women ministers who criss-crossed the Atlantic, preaching the Inner Light, and changing forever the perception of women's roles. The authority with which Quaker women later spoke in the reform movements can be traced to these spiritual predecessors." - Margaret Hope Bacon.

University of North Carolina Press 2000 416 PP. Paper

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Early Friends And Ministry

BY MARTHA PAXSON GRUNDY
What did the first Friends actually have to say about ministry? Marty Grundy provides a short but thorough guide to this aspect of early Quaker thought. In addition, she gives us her incisive analysis, examining today's thought and practice concerning ministry in the light of early Friends' intentions.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 28 PP. Paper

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Friends General Conference (204)

100 Years (1900-2000)

BY THE FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
A special issue of Quaker History published on the occasion of the anniversary of FGC. Contributors include Deborah Haines, Thomas Hamm, Mary Ellen Singsen and Chuck Fager.

Friends Historical Association 2000 76 PP. Paper

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George Bishop

The Story Of A 17th Century Soldier Turned Quaker

BY MARYANN FEOLA
The story of a Bristol brewer who became a soldier in the New Model Army and a very radical thinker. He was convinced as a Quaker in 1654, and between 1660 and 1668 published several books including "New England judged, being a Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the Quakers in that part of America from the Beginning of the 5th Month, 1656, to the End of the 10th Month, 1660."

Sessions of York 1988 174 PP. Paper

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Heaven On Earth

Quakers And The Second Coming

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION, DOUGLAS GWYN, TIMOTHY PEAT
Almost impossible to summarize, a book exploding with ideas and insights. The experience of Christ was so central to the lives of early friends, that it was as if they were living in the second coming. Peat and Gwyn look at Paul's Gospel, and Quaker beliefs and practices. Pink Dandelion looks at how this unrealized idea of the second coming has influenced Quaker thought today. All copies suffer from poor quality binding.keep a rubber band handy!

Curlew 1998 271 PP. Paper

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A History Of Southland College

The Society Of Friends And Black Education In Arkansas

BY THOMAS KENNEDY
This work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America.

University of Arkansas Press 2009 424 PP. Cloth

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The History Of The Penn Treaty Park

BY KENNETH MILANO
The treatment of the area around the spot that William Penn met and made agreement with the local Indian chiefs (and the Elm tree under which they sat) has much to say about the relation of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to William Penn's Quaker ideals. This nicely illustrated history of that locale and the events around it is full of interesting and telling details.

The History Press 2009 158 PP. Paper

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Imaginary Friends

Representing Quakers In American Culture, 1650-1950

BY JAMES EMMETT RYAN
Since their arrival in the American colonies in the 1650s, Quakers' spiritual values, social habits and their example - whether real or imagined-has served as a religious conscience for an expanding nation. Spanning four centuries, Imaginary Friends takes readers through these representations of Quaker life in a range of literary and visual genres, from theological debates, missionary work records, political theory, and biography to fiction, poetry, theater, and film. It illustrates ways that these "imaginary" Friends have offered a radical model of morality, piety, and anti-modernity against which the evolving culture has measured itself.

University of Wisconsin 2009 285 PP. Paper

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Let Your Words Be Few

Symbolism Of Speaking And Silence Among Seventeenth-century Quakers

BYRICHARD BAUMAN
Reprinted from the Cambridge University Press original. Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement..

Wheatmark 2008 180 PP. Paper

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Light In Their Consciences

Faith, Practices, And Personalities In Early British Quakerism, 1646-1666

BY ROSEMARY ANNE MOORE
This book is a new history of the early Quaker movement. "Rooted firmly and deeply in the pamphlet and manuscript sources of the period, this study embodies a masterful exploration of early Quaker life and thought. In its lucidity and depth, Rosemary Moore's book clearly deserves an honored place among the first rank of studies of Quaker origins." - H. Larry Ingle

Pennsylvania State University Press 2000 296 PP. Cloth

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The London Friends' Meetings

Showing The Rise Of The Society Of Friends In London

BY WILLIAM BECK , THOMAS BALL, SIMON DIXON, PETER DANIELS
Reprint of the 1869 classic history of Quakers in London, with a new introduction by Simon Dixon and Peter Daniels and new illustrations and index. The book affectionately known as "Beck and Ball" is a comprehensive survey which describes not only the buildings where the meetings took place, but also how they were organized and the personalities involved, with telling details of their lives as Londoners. To do this the authors made a systematic reading of all the minute books of the London meetings, combined with the writings of George Fox and others, plus their own extensive knowledge gathered from experience in various capacities.

Pronoun Press 2009 520 PP. Paper

$39.00 (in stock)

The Lost Secret Of The Liberty Bell

BY SALLY RICKERMAN
Sally Rickerman looks at the evidence that the Liberty Bell, with its famous quotation was ordered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penn's "Charter of liberties" (more correctly the Charter of privileges). Penn's ideas, his charter and the early history of the commonwealth are explored as they relate to the ordering and casting of the bell.

Troll Press 2009 24 PP. Paper

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Opening The Quaker Time Capsule

BY THOMAS HAMM
"The author chose `Opening the Quaker Time Capsule' as the subject of this 2001 Weed Lecture. His review of Quaker mores and thought at the turn of the 20th century holds insights and lessons, as well as amusing sidelights, on Quakerism for us as we begin the 21st. All manner of Friends can benefit from this survey of where we have been as we consider where we are and where we are going." - Hugh Barbour, from the Introduction

Beacon Hill Friends House 2004 27 PP. Paper

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Peaceable Kingdom Lost

The Paxton Boys And The Destruction Of William Penn's Holy Experiment

BY KEVIN KENNY
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. "Kenny concludes that the Boys' attitude toward the Indians and their attacks on the ruling powers presaged the military and political activities of the American Revolution and the new nation's mistreatment of the Indians." - Publishers Weekly

Oxford University Press 2009 304 PP. Cloth

$29.95 (in stock)

Preaching The Inward Light

Early Quaker Rhetoric

BY MICHAEL GRAVES
Studying the history of early Quaker preaching, Michael Graves uses careful rhetorical analysis to provide insights into Quaker theology and practice. Situating the movement within the intellectual context of early seventeenth century Europe, he explores both seminal preachers and lesser known figures who were nonetheless important rhetoricians. Through extant sermons he demonstrates that the early Quakers could be a vocal, even revivalistic, sect that sought to put into effect world-wide the moral, spiritual, and practical virtues of what they called primitive Christianity.

Baylor University Press 2009 450 PP. Cloth

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Print Culture And The Early Quakers

BY KATE PETERS
From its outset in the 1650s, the Quaker movement made extensive use of the printing press in spreading its message. This book explores how and why early Quaker leaders used printed tracts in their campaign. It reveals how the tracts were produced, distributed and read, as well as their role in the Quakers' dynamic campaign for religious and political liberty under the republican rule of Oliver Cromwell.

Cambridge University Press 2005 296 PP. Cloth

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The Quaker Approach To Contemporary Problems. (13013)

EDITED BY JOHN KAVANAUGH
Ex library reprint from 1970 or the 1953 original. Edited by John Kavanagh as PR director of AFSC. Contains articles on subjects like science, civil liberties, business by well known Friends such as Kathleen Lonsdale, Henry Cadbury and Kenneth Boulding.Good condition. SECONDHAND BOOK.

Greenwood Press 1953 241 PP. Cloth

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Quaker History, Vol 93, Spring 2004, No 1 (202)

Special Issue On Fox's Legacy 350 Years On

VARIOUS AUTHORS
Articles by Carole Spencer, Chuck Fager, Thomas Hamm, Larry Ingle, Rosemary Moore, Arthur Roberts and many others.

Friends Historical Association 2004 149 PP. Paper

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Quaker History, Vol 67, Spring, 1978 #1 (210)

BY FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
QH Concientious objectors in the confederacy: The Q's of N Carolina: Richard Zuber; Friends Asylum, Morgan Hinchman and moral insanity: Charles Cherry: Q and the civil war: the life of James Parnell Jones: Peter Curtis. .

Friends Historical Association 1977 60 PP. Paper

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Quaker Studies Vol 6 Issue 1, 2001 (10094)

EDITED BY BEN PINK DANDELION
SECONDHAND, A bit tatty and creased, but readable. JOURNAL with 2 articles on Nayler by Carole Spencer, and David Neelon, Buddhist Q's, Bertram Pickard, Anna Deborah Richardson.

QSA 2001 125 PP. Paper

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Quaker Women

Emotional Life, Memory, And Radicalism In The Lives Of Women Friends, 1800-1920

BY SANDRA STANLEY HOLTON
In 1839 Elizabeth Priestman married the British Quaker politician John Bright. A collection of personal and public papers has surfaced that reveals the lives of their circle, women Friends active in radical politics and the women's movement. The book examines the building of extensive Quaker networks working for change; the relationship between Quaker religious values and women's participation in civil society and radical politics and the women's rights movement. There are also fresh perspectives on the political career of John Bright, provided by his fond but frank women kin.

Routledge 2007 304 PP. Paper

$36.95 (in stock)

Quakers In Conflict

BY LINDA WILLARD
Not to be confused with Larry Ingles book on the Hicksite Orthodox split. This book tells the tales of Quakers who felt constrained to break a Quaker testimony, mostly by going to war, and to separate from their Meeting. Includes the founder of the Marines, Samuel Nicholas buried at Arch St Meeting in Philadelphia and many many others - including Annie Oakley.

Tate Publishing 2009 256 PP. Paper

$14.99 (in stock)

Quakers, Newgate And The Old Bailey

BY SIMON WEBB
Quakers were involved with the Old Bailey and the notorious Newgate Prison for over 200 years. Their number included, victims of injustice, a few Quaker criminals and prison reformers such as Elizabeth Fry. Drawing on the Newgate Calendar, The Proceedings of the Old Bailey and other sources, this book tells a true story of Quakers, crime, justice and reform from 1652 to 1851.

Simon Webb 2008 76 PP. Paper

$12.50 (in stock)

Revolutionary Quaker Witness

Learning From The Lamb's War Of The 1650's

BY DOUG GWYN
What were they thinking? What were the spiritual and social roots of the activism our Quaker forbearers were known for? Doug Gwyn provides a short guide to the history of Quaker beginnings, focussing on the aspects that enabled the first Friends to truly 'tear down the pillars of the world' as one version of the George Fox song has it. Gwyn applies his understanding of this dynamic to our current sense of impasse in the face of the world's ills, and comes up with some challenging answers.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2009 434 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)