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An Absent Presence: Quaker Narratives Of Journeys To America And Barbados, 1671-81, Hilary Hinds
An Absent Presence: Quaker Narratives Of Journeys To America And Barbados, 1671-81, Hilary Hinds
Quaker Studies
Through case studies of writings by George Fox, Alice Curwen and Joan Vokins, this article identifies a marked discrepancy in style and focus between early Quaker accounts of journeys to the American mainland and to Barbados. Accounts of the mainland journeys are detailed and often dramatic narratives which, like most early Quaker writing, read the spiritual in and from the places and people encountered, whilst those concerned with Barbados are brief, bland and apparently unconcerned with the immanence of God in the material and social world. An explanation for this discrepancy is sought in the particular cultural and social circumstances …
In Search Of A New Jerusalem: A Preliminary Investigation Into The Causes And Impact Of Welsh Quaker Emigration To Pennsylvania, C.1660 - 1750, Richard C. Allen
In Search Of A New Jerusalem: A Preliminary Investigation Into The Causes And Impact Of Welsh Quaker Emigration To Pennsylvania, C.1660 - 1750, Richard C. Allen
Quaker Studies
The establishment of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASW CH) in the mid 1990s has informed the work of historians on both sides of the Atlantic, and yet the important early history of Welsh emigration to America and reverse migration has still to be fully addressed. Research on Welsh migratory patterns and the impact of America on Wales in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, notably by Gwyn Alf Williams, Barry Levy, and Bill Jones, has made an important contribution to our understanding of the experiences of Welsh-Americans. However, further research is needed if …
A Sermon, Delivered At Friends' Meeting-House, Rose-Street, New-York, Sunday Morning, June 28, 1829, Elias Hicks
A Sermon, Delivered At Friends' Meeting-House, Rose-Street, New-York, Sunday Morning, June 28, 1829, Elias Hicks
Historical Quaker Books
24 pages, 21 cm, English