Albion's Seed

Four British Folkways In America

BY DAVID HACKETT FISCHER
"This cultural history explains the English settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. [Puritans emigrated from East Anglia to Massachusetts; royalist cavaliers and indentured servants emigrated from the south and west of England to Virginia; Quakers of modest social standing emigrated from the North Midlands to the Delaware Valley; and poor borderland families fled to the American back country.] These four cultures, reflected in regional patterns of language, architecture, literacy, dress, sport, social structure, religious beliefs, and familial ways, persisted in the American settlements." -Library Journal

Oxford University Press 1989 945 PP. Paper

$34.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Black Abolitionists

BY BENJAMIN QUARLES
Black abolitionists introduces us to the many overlooked African Americans who were active in the movement, preaching, writing, guiding and travelling the world to bring an end to the despicable practice of slavery. A reprint of the then groundbreaking 1969 book but still as relevant as ever today.

Da Capo 1990 320 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Bound For Canaan

The Epic Story Of The Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

BY FERGUS BORDEWICH
The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.

Amistad Press 2006 576 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Crusade Against Slavery (8110)

Friends, Foes, And Reforms, 1820-1860

BY LOUIS FILLER
SECONDHAND COPY, good condition paperback that probably looked a bit messy even when new. Sounds like an interesting tome, but I think the author comes at the issues from a very Conservative angle that may lead to greater insight but isn't what folks or at least Quakers often get to read, and I am afraid I haven't read it myself.

Reference Publications 1986 389 PP. Paper

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Early Quaker Records In Philadelphia 175 (90)

1750-1800
SECONDHAND, as new paperback. Marriages, births, deaths, certificates received and minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and its offspring monthly meetings of the Northern District and Southern District. Minutes are included for the following time periods: Philadelphia MM minutes, 1751-1785; Northern District minutes, 1772-1775; and Southern District minutes, 1772-1775.

Family line productions 1998 402 PP. Paper

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Essays On Salvation By Christ

BY JOB SCOTT
Also including: Luke Howard's "Letter to a Friend in America" , Benjamin Ferris's reply to Luke Howard and an anonymous reply to Ferris. The material written by Job Scott was transcribed from The Works of that Eminent Minister of the Gospel, Job Scott, late of Providence Rhode Island (Philadelphia: John Comly, 1831, 2 volumes). The three controversial pamphlets, all independently published, were found in Haverford College Library's Quaker Collection.

Quaker Heritage Press 1993 Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

Freedom Roads

Searching For The Underground Railroad

BY JOYCE HANSEN
Maps, sidebars, contemporary documents, and a scene-setting painting start each chapter. Using scholarship, oral history, even heat cameras, the workings of the underground railroad are revealed as a series of linked, but individual responses to slavery. Lots of references to Quakers, Quakerism and Quaker beliefs included. For Ages 8-12.

Cricket Books 2003 166 PP. Cloth

$18.95 (in stock)

In The Heart Of The Sea (887)

The Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex

BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
The true story which inspired Melville's Moby Dick. Some of the main characters are Nantucket Quaker whalers. Paperback in good condition.

Penquin, 2000 302 PP. Paper

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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

$12.00 (in stock)

In The Shadow Of The Civil War

Passmore Williamson And The Rescue Of Jane Johnson

BY NAT BRANDT WITH YANNA KROYT BRANDT
Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures - one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman--risked personal liberty to ensure each other's freedom in an explosive episode that captured the attention of a nation on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this deeply researched account of the rescue of the slave Jane Johnson by the former Philadelphia Quaker and fervent abolitionist Passmore Williamson, of the federal court case that followed, and of Johnson's selfless efforts to free the jailed Williamson, journalist Nat Brandt and filmmaker Yanna Kroyt Brandt capture the heroism and humanity at the heart of this important moment in American history.

Univ. of S. Carolina 2007 216 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

Lively Faith, Epub Ebook

Reflections On Iowa Yearly Meeting Of Friends ( Conservative)

BY CALLIE MARSH
This is a ePub formatted version of the book. Download to your computer and then upload from there to any E reader device except a Kindle. WE WILL EMAIL YOU A LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE BOOK ON THE NEXT WORKING DAY AFTER RECEIVING YOUR ORDER. The Conservative Friends of Iowa have a unique story of how one group of Quakers has held fast to its roots against the winds of change, while simultaneously grappling with and responding to the modern world. They fit neither into the liberal nor orthodox Quaker camps, yet with connections to both.(Enter the title in the search field at left to find print and mobi editions.)

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 81 PP. E Book

$11.95 (in stock)

A Lively Faith, Mobi Ebook

Reflections On Iowa Yearly Meeting Of Friends ( Conservative)

BY CALLIE MARSH
This is a mobi formatted version of the book. Download to your computer and then upload from there to a Kindle. WE WILL EMAIL YOU A LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE BOOK ON THE NEXT WORKING DAY AFTER RECEIVING YOUR ORDER. The Conservative Friends of Iowa have a unique story of how one group of Quakers has held fast to its roots against the winds of change, while simultaneously grappling with and responding to the modern world. They fit neither into the liberal nor orthodox Quaker camps, yet with connections to both. Callie Marsh entered this community as an adult seeker and made it her home. (Enter the title in the search field at left to find print and ePub editions.)

Quaker Press of FGC 2011 81 PP. E Book

$11.95 (in stock)

Meeting House And Counting House

The Quaker Merchants Of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763

BY FREDERICK TOLLES
Uses primary sources to document the economic, social, and intellectual life of Friends between 1682 and 1763. He has drawn a thoroughly uncompromising picture of what happened to this religious community with the achievement of prosperity, social prestige, and political power. William Penn's 'holy experiment' failed, but Quaker contributions to medicine, government, and education cannot be underestimated, and this chapter of colonial history is of immense importance to a fuller understanding of American character and society. First published in 1963.

WW Norton 2007 324 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Monteverde

BY MILDRED MENDENHALL
The story of how Mildred and her husband Hubert ( and 25 others) came to move from Fairhope Alabama to the cloud Forest of Costa Rica and establish the Quaker community of Monteverde. Canadian Quaker Pamphlet # 42.

Argenta Friends Press 1995 32 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Out Of Hitler's Reach

The Scattergood Hostel For European Refugees, 1939-1943

BY MICHAEL LUICK-THRAMS
From 1939 to 1943, close to 185 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe found refuge at Scattergood, a temporary hostel in what had been (and now is) a Quaker boarding school near West Branch, Iowa. Telling the stories of the refugees' backgrounds, their flight from Europe, and their lives in the United States, this book is a fascinating history.

Luick-Thrams 1996 321 PP. Paper

$20.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

A Perfect Freedom

Religious Liberty In Pennsylvania

BY J. WILLIAM FROST
Frost uses a wide variety of historical sources to trace the development of religious freedom in Pennsylvania from the founding of the colony up to World War II. Quakers figure prominently throughout. "Given the importance of the Pennsylvania story to the development of religious liberty in America, it is surprising-as J. William Frost notes-that this story has received so little attention. Here, at last, we have the vital narrative offered in impressive and illuminating detail."-Edwin S. Gaustad, American Historical Review

Pennsylvania State Press 1990 220 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Puritan New England (33007)

Essays On Religion, Society And Culture

ED ALDEN VAUGHAN AND FRANCIS BREMMER
SECONDHAND. 21 essays on early Puritan New England, no immediate indication of huge Quaker interest - and irritatingly no index - but it must be there. Articles on Black Puritans and Winthrops garden crops! Fair condition paperback, no markings or underlinings.

St Martins 1977 394 PP. Paper

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Quaker Nantucket

The Religious Community Behind The Whaling Empire

BY ROBERT LEACH AND PETER GOW
The spiritual tidal wave of Quakerism swept Nantucket creating one of the world's most notable Quaker communities and a whaling empire that was the envy of the world. It is a story of amazing individuals, their prosperity, and eventual infighting and religious schism.

Mill Hill Press 1997 224 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

Quakers And The American Revolution

BY ARTHUR MEKEEL
Detailed study of the impact of the revolutionary struggle on the Society of Friends.

Sessions 1996 420 PP. Paper

$37.50 (in stock)

The Quakers In America - Paperback

BY THOMAS HAMM
This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends, an introduction to Quaker beliefs and practices and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United Meetings, reflecting Friends' diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. "There has long been a need for a study of American Quakers in the twentieth century. With meticulous scholarship and a graceful style, Thomas Hamm has filled this need admirably." -Margaret Hope Bacon

Columbia University Press 2006 304 PP Paper

$28.00 (in stock)

Quakers In Conflict, The Hicksite Reformation

BY LARRY INGLE
The Hicksite reformation, the single most influential development in American Quaker history, receives its definitive interpretation in this book. Larry Ingle traces the schisms of 1827 and 1828, showing that the conflict was not only over matters of doctrine; it was also a struggle for power within the Society of Friends. Ingle's approach to his subject links the Quaker experience to a question that has always been central to Protestantism: Which has greater authority --the testimony of religious experience or the collective weight of the scriptures and church doctrine? Ingle shows how rural Hicksites resisted Evangelicalism and themselves contributed to modern notions of individualism.

P Hill 1998 310 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Quakers In The Modern World (6)

WISTAR COMFORT
SECONDHAND COPY- little blue war quality hardback -no dust jacket and with much pencil underlining. A Quaker look at all the social issues and what should be done in the optimism after a world war ended.

Macmillan 1949 212 PP. Cloth

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Quakers In The Colonial Northeast

BY ARTHUR WORRALL JR
Traces the Quaker experience in New England and New York from the arrival of the first English Quaker missionaries in 1656 through till 1790.

University Press of New England 2003 248 PP. Paper

$24.95 (in stock)

Seeking The Blessed Community

A History Of Canadian Young Friends 1875-1996

BY KYLE JOLIFFE
The strange thing about young friends is that there are always young friends growing up and becoming "old friends". Their ideas connections and practice are oftentimes more vibrant than the existing tradition, and contribute greatly to the spiritual life of the society. Here is a good long look at the history of young friends from 1875 in Canada.

Kyle Jolliffe 1997 89 PP. Paper

$12.95 (in stock)

The Story Of Ellerslie (now Crosslands) (716)

1697-1977

BY ROBERT H WILSON
SECONDHAND COPY, small pamphlet in quite nice condition, produced for 300 th anniversary of Ellerslie, a farm started by English friend Elizabeth Webb, then in the Savery family and now the home of Crosslands Quaker community.

Crooslands residents assn 1977 45 PP. Paper

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To Be Silent... Would Be Criminal

The Antislavery Influence And Writings Of Anthony Benezet

BY IRV BRENDLINGER
Born in 1713 Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was one of the most significant forces in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century. To Be Silent... Would Be Criminal introduces the development of antislavery activity in America and then traces the life of Benezet, examining both his work and influence on individuals. Benezet's correspondence with several influential contemporaries is reproduced here, giving insight into his relationships and his desire to build a viable network to oppose slavery.Was $35 now $25.

Scarecrow Press 2006 246 PP. Cloth

$16.00 (in stock)

To Make Our World Anew

A History Of African Americans

EDITED BY ROBIN D.G. KELLEY AND EARL LEWIS
In this impressive multidisciplinary book, professors Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis bring together nine scholars to outline the 500-year African American experience, from the Middle Passage to the Million Man March. Every aspect of the African American experience is explored: slavery, slave rebellions, emancipation, segregation, lynchings, civil rights, and the post civil rights era. The book is particularly strong on late-20th-century social issues, with insightful coverage of the attack on affirmative action and the impact of immigration, crack cocaine, and AIDS on the black community. To Make Our World Anew is essential reading for anyone interested in the black American experience.

Oxford 2000 613 PP. Cloth

$19.95 (in stock)

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave

Parallel Lives In The Age Of Slavery

BY JAMES WALVIN
John Newton (1725-1807), best-known as the writer of "Amazing Grace," was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786), lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica, and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave-owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), was practically unknown thirty years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave who speaks out for the lives of millions who went unrecorded.

Vintage 2007 297 PP. Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Underground Railroad In New Jersey And New York

BY WILLIAM SWITALA
This book tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. It pinpoints the major routes through the states, with maps and information for locating them today. There is also a chapter on Canada - the final destination of many escaped slaves.

Stackpole Books 2006 166 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

The Unknown American Revolution

The Unruly Birth Of Democracy And The Struggle To Create America

BY GARY NASH
SECONDHAND COPY- In good conditionapart from acoffee stain on the bottom. Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today. The role of Friends is mentioned occasionally throughout the text.

Penguin 2006 512 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)