Article: The Quakers in America.(Book Review)

Article: American Quakers challenge US role in Iraq
Peacework;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...On May 30, a delegation of Quakers left for Iraq, defying US restrictions on travel to that country. The delegation was organized by the Campaign of Conscience for the People of Iraq, a multifaith effort to end the economic sanctions. The trip calls attention to the devastating impact of sanctions

Article: An American Quaker in the British Isles: The Travel ...
Business History;  April 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Jabez Maud Fisher, the son of a successful merchant, was sent on a tour of the British Isles at the age of 25, as representative of his father's firm. He was instructed to settle accounts, renew existing business contacts, establish others which might prove useful and observe the state of British

Article: QUAKERS LIGHTED THE PATH FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.(Lifestyle)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 3, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... background and history of the American Quakers, patterns of migration ... point for all research in American Quaker records is in the multivolume ... Hinshaw's ``Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy,'' widely available ...

Article: For more information.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 21, 2001 ;     506 words ... ... by Howard Brinton (a classic history and overview by an American Quaker who taught math, physics and religion); _``A Guide ... The Peaceable Kingdom'' (about early British and American Quakers) and Jessamyn West's, ``The Friendly Persuasion ...

Dictionary definition: Keith, George
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      337 words ... ... General of the colony of East Jersey. He was critical of much that he considered lax in the discipline and teaching of the American Quakers and of their belief in the ‘sufficiency of thy light within’; when disowned by them he gathered ...

Article: Antislavery
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... territory. Gradualism The early history of antislavery in America consisted primarily of the agitation of certain British and American Quakers, but even in this group antislavery sentiments grew slowly because many wealthy Quakers were slave-holders. Only by ...

Article: Eco-topia.(ecotourism)
National Review;  December 11, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... because it is in a "cloudforest," which is what you call a rain forest on a mountainside. Monteverde was founded by American Quakers who refused to subsidize the Pentagon with their tax dollars (but evidently had no objection to the tax-free benefits ...