What is it about?
Most people associate Quakers with tolerance, humanitarianism, and social activism. This book examines how this variety of Quakerism emerged.
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Why is it important?
Liberal Quakerism in America was the fruit of complicated forces. Those included developments in the larger American society, schisms within Quakerism, and powerful personalities such as Lucretia Mott and Rufus M. Jones. This work provides a concise narrative of this story.
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This reflects my almost forty years of research and reflection on American Quaker history.
Thomas Hamm Hamm
Earlham College
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This page is a summary of: Liberal Quakerism in America in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1790–1920, Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies, February 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/2542498x-12340013.
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