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Sydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The initial chapter of Fisher's work is enmeshed with the establishment of the Quaker movement within the United Kingdom. Formed in opposition to the Puritan ideas, Quakerism formed in the wake of the chaos of the English Civil War. At the same time, colonists were encouraged to travel to North America,...

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Sydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.The initial chapter of Fisher?s work is enmeshed with the establishment of the Quaker movement within the United Kingdom. Formed in opposition to the Puritan ideas, Quakerism formed in the wake of the chaos of the English Civil War. At the same time, colonists were encouraged to travel to North America, ...

Sydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.The initial chapter of Fisher?s work is enmeshed with the establishment of the Quaker movement within the United Kingdom. Formed in opposition to the Puritan ideas, Quakerism formed in the wake of the chaos of the English Civil War. At the same time, colonists were encouraged to travel to North America, ...

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Sydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.The initial chapter of Fisher's work is enmeshed with the establishment of the Quaker movement within the United Kingdom. Formed in opposition to the Puritan ideas, Quakerism formed in the wake of the chaos of the English Civil War. At the same time, colonists were encouraged to travel to North America, ...

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Excerpt from The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the DelawareThe first law against the Quakers in Massachu setts was passed in 1656, and between that date and 1660 four of the sect were hanged, one of them a woman, Mary Dyer. Though there were no other hangings, many Quakers were punished by whipping and banishment. In other colonies, notably New York, fines and banishment were not uncommon. Such treatment forced the Quakers...

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Excerpt from Ingersoll AnsweredDo you really object to this religious instinct? Do you really think it monstrous and wicked? Do you [really think it interferes with liberty, and causes unhappiness? I grant you that men have made outrageous uses of it that they have built upon it churches which deserve all the indigna-7 tion that your generous heart can feel and your powerful mind express. But let us distinguish between the thing itself and'the...

Excerpt from American Education I felt the need of a general view or summary of the principles and problems, but there was none. I had to look up the facts and arguments from time to time in numerous reports, documents, pamphlets and books. Having collected so much material from these for my own enlightenment it has occurred to me to put it in a form accessible to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

Excerpt from The American Revolution and the Boer War: An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams, on His Pamphlet "the Confederacy and the Transvaal" You argue that the Boers, when their regular armies were defeated some considerable time ago, should have sur rendered, given. Up the struggle, and not have resorted to a prolongation of the contest by guerilla methods. In sup port of this you cite the action of General Lee at the close of our...

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Excerpt from The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the DelawareThe first law against the Quakers in Massachu setts was passed in 1656, and between that date and 1660 four of the sect were hanged, one of them a woman, Mary Dyer. Though there were no other hangings, many Quakers were punished by whipping and banishment. In other colonies, notably New York, fines and banishment were not uncommon. Such treatment forced the Quakers...

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