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Elizabeth Gray Vining
5) Penn
Author
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
1938
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and was its first leader.
6) Mr. Whittier
Author
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
©1974
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Quaker poet stressing his deep involvement in abolition, women's suffrage, and other human rights, with emphasis on the articles and poems he wrote in defense of his beliefs.
Author
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1955
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized version of an event which actually occurred in Philadelphia as the British army was about to seize the city in the fall of 1777. Approximately 20 prominent citizens (mostly Quakers) who, for religious reasons, refused to support either side, were arrested on the presumption that "if you're not for us, you're against us." After a month in which they were imprisoned at Philadelphia's Masonic Hall, they were exiled for five months to...
