North Carolina Quakers: Spring Friends Meeting
In the 1750s, Quakers from Pennsylvania and Virginia settled in the North Carolina Piedmont, eventually organizing Spring Friends Meeting in 1763. The Friends still gather by the spring and wait for the light to descend upon them 250 years later. Spring Meeting nursed the injured and dying in the American Revolution, said goodbye to members migrating to farmlands in the Northwest, stood against slavery in the antebellum years, helped reconstruct the South in the late 1800s, and held their pacifist beliefs throughout the 20th century. A record-setting World Series pitcher, leading educators, missionaries, and major figures in North Carolina Qu…
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Weitere Autoren: Spring Friends Meeting
- ISBN: 978-0-7385-8231-3
- EAN: 9780738582313
- Produktnummer: 11240733
- Verlag: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B16.5 cm x D1.0 cm 272 g
- Gewicht: 272
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