The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in AmericaThe moving story of the Society of Friends and its unique contribution to the history of this country, from the day in 1656 when the first Publishers of the Truth arrrived in Boston harbor to the present. |
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Who are the Quakers? | 3 |
British beginnings | 9 |
The Quakers come to the New World | 25 |
Copyright | |
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