The Back Bench

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
It's 1837, and fourteen-year-old Quaker Myra Harlan's mother has died, forcing her to leave her home and family in the country to live in Philadelphia. Shocked by the racism she sees all around her and caught in the aftermath of the Orthodox-Hicksite split in the Religious Society of Friends, Myra longs for her mother and struggles to make friends until she finds the Female Anti-Slavery Society, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Douglass, and - ultimately - herself.

Quaker Press of FGC 2007 127 PP. Paper

$13.00 (in stock)

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

$50.00 (low stock)

But One Race

The Life Of Robert Purvis

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810-1898) was one of the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform.

State University of New York Press 2007 272 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (in stock)

Henry J. Cadbury

Scholar, Activist, Disciple - Php 376

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Cadbury's accomplishments and commitments reached into many worlds. He was widely acknowledged as an author and as a biblical scholar and translator. He was a professor at Harvard Divinity School, Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and Pendle Hill. A strong and steady voice for peace and racial justice, he lived his faith through social action. For Henry Cadbury, that activism was expressed principally through the AFSC, of which he was a founder and long-time board chair. Margaret Hope Bacon, the prominent Quaker Historian, who was his associate at AFSC for many years, draws upon her unique perspective to acquaint readers with his full and rich life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 38 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

I Speak For My Slave Sister (303)

The Life Of Abby Kelley Foster

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
SECONDHAND COPY. Slightly torn jacket. Good condition Written in the lively and accessible style well known to readers of Bacon's books Abbey Foster comes alive as the prototypical Quaker activist, strong enough to discipline even her fiery anti-clerical husband Stephen Foster (not the song writer). After her first important speech on slavery the hall was burned down, but she continued on to a life of uninterrupted and principled work on behalf of the rights of African Americans and women.

Thomas Y Crowell Co 1974 235 PP. Cloth

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In The Shadow Of William Penn

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Of Friends

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Much of the story of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting is also the story of Philadelphia Quakers for the last two centuries. The meeting came into existence with the merger of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Race Street) and Twelfth Street Meeting at the time of the reconciliation of the Hicksite and Orthodox branches of Quakerism in 1956. Margaret Bacon, writing about her own meeting, tells us about these two meetings, their schools and meetinghouses, the development of Friends organizations, and their social action that responded to the events around them, that bring us up to the present time.

CPMM 2001 84 PP. Paper

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Love Is The Hardest Lesson

A Memoir By Margaret Hope Bacon

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
"[The author] gives us a vivid account of her experience working in a state psychiatric institution as the young wife of a conscientious objector during World War II. She portrays the insulated and dehumanizing world of Sykesville where patients lost their individuality and caregivers behaved abusively from their own fear. Margaret's personal story movingly illustrates the transformative power of love which casts out fear and restores to others their sense of humanity." - Lee Junker

Pendle Hill 1999 143 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Lucretia Mott Speaking

Excerpts From The Sermons - Php 234

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
The great Quaker was a leader in women's struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

$7.00 (backorder)

The Quiet Rebels

The Story Of The Quakers In America

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Chapter titles include: 1. Who are the Quakers? 2. British beginnings 3. The Quakers come to the New World 4. The Holy Experiment 5. The middle years of American Quakerism: 1775-1875 6. The abolition of slavery 7. Pioneers in social change 8. The Quaker contribution to the cultural life of America 9. Quakers and the world 10. American Quakers today. Includes an introductory essay, "The Quaker Contribution to Nonviolent Action."

Pendle Hill 1999 240 PP. Paper

$12.00 (in stock)

Remembering Agnes (10072)

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
SECONDHAND. Fair condition. A short reflection on the powerful lesson about the indestructible power of love, learned from Agnes Holler, a patient in the hospital she worked at as a CO's wife during the war.

WQF 2006 10 PP. Paper

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Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender Of Quaker Meeting

View From The Back Bench

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON, FOREWORD BY VANESSA JULYE
Understanding the past is often key to changing the present. After 165 years the legacy of Sarah Mapps Douglass, African American scholar, educator, abolitionist, artist and faithful attender of Quaker meeting has much to say to Friends in the 21st century, especially those concerned with racism and the lack of racial diversity within the Religious Society of Friends. In the foreword Vanessa Julye places the lessons from Sarah Mapps Douglass' life in a vivid and painful contemporary context. In the biography that follows Margaret Hope Bacon explores Sarah's life.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 34 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Valiant Friend

The Life Of Lucretia Mott

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Lucretia Mott - Quaker minister, anti-slavery leader, champion of the feminist cause-this gentle woman's life is chronicled in a dynamic biography by Margaret Hope Bacon. This new edition of Valiant Friend makes the life story of Lucretia Mott, "the most venerated woman in America," available to us as a shining example of what a life of courage and conviction can accomplish.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 304 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Wilt Thou Go On My Errand?

Three 18th Century Journals Of Quaker Women Ministers

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Three journals which chronicle the spiritual awakenings and lively adventures of traveling ministers Susanna Morris, Elizabeth Hudson and Ann Moore. This book is a testament to the freedom of expression and activity resulting from the Religious Society's honoring of the value of these women's voices.

Pendle Hill 1994 400 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

Year Of Grace

A Novel

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Margaret Hope Bacon, author of many Quaker related books, brings us a poignant and courageous tale of an elderly, but active, Quaker woman coming to terms with her own mortality in the final year of her life. The author has created a truly inspirational character whose spiritual life, based on a strong Quaker foundation, is reflected at the culmination of her earthly life in a remarkable 'year of grace.' "Beautifully written, this story of a spirit and action-filled last adventure will speak to many conditions, from that of us "oldies" nearing the end of our own journey, to that of the 'youngies' just finding the trail. Bacon reminds us all how adventurous old age can be!"-Boulding

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 200 PP. Paper

$14.95 (backorder)