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Category : Ercildoun (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Fallowfield Friends' Meeting House, Ercildoun, Pennsylvania, One Hundredth Anniversary
Quaker Carpetbagger
Author: Max Longley
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and was active in the Progressive Friends Meeting, a national group of activist Quakers and allied reformers who met annually in Chester County. Williams and his associates discussed vital matters of the day, from slavery to prohibition to women's rights. These issues sometimes came to Thorne's doorstep--he met with nationally prominent reformers, and thwarted kidnappers seeking to enslave one of his free black tenants. After the Civil War, Williams became a "carpetbagger," moving to North Carolina to pursue farming and politics. An "infidel" Quaker (anti-Christian), he was opposed by Democrats who sought to keep him out of the legislature on account of his religious beliefs. Today a little-known figure in history, Williams made his mark through his outspokenness and persistent battling for what he believed.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and was active in the Progressive Friends Meeting, a national group of activist Quakers and allied reformers who met annually in Chester County. Williams and his associates discussed vital matters of the day, from slavery to prohibition to women's rights. These issues sometimes came to Thorne's doorstep--he met with nationally prominent reformers, and thwarted kidnappers seeking to enslave one of his free black tenants. After the Civil War, Williams became a "carpetbagger," moving to North Carolina to pursue farming and politics. An "infidel" Quaker (anti-Christian), he was opposed by Democrats who sought to keep him out of the legislature on account of his religious beliefs. Today a little-known figure in history, Williams made his mark through his outspokenness and persistent battling for what he believed.
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society
Author: Pennsylvania Society, New York
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society of New York
Author: Pennsylvania Society of New York
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Yearbook
Author: Pennsylvania Society of New York
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Friends' Intelligencer
Quaker History
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Inventory of Church Archives
Author: Pennsylvania Historical Survey
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Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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