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Author Bacon, Margaret Hope.

Title The quiet rebels : the story of the Quakers in America / Margaret Hope Bacon ; with an introduction, "The Quaker Contribution to Nonviolent Action."

Imprint Philadelphia, PA : New Society Publishers, ©1985.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  289.673 B135q 1985    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.
Summary The story of the quakers in America.
Contents The Quaker contribution to nonviolent action -- Who are the Quakers? -- The Quakers come to the new world -- The holy experiment -- The middle years of American Quakerism: 1775-1875 -- The abolition of slavery -- Pioneers in social change -- The Quaker contribution to the cultural life of America -- Quakers abd the world -- American Quakers today.
Subject Society of Friends -- History.
Society of Friends -- Influence.
Quakers -- United States -- History.
Quakers. (OCoLC)fst01084913
Society of Friends. (OCoLC)fst01123801
Society of Friends -- Influence. (OCoLC)fst01123820
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Quaker contribution to nonviolent action.
ISBN 0865710570 (pbk.)
9780865710573 (pbk.)
0865710589
9780865710580

 
    
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