A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America
Author: Thomas Mardy Rees
Publisher: Carmarthen, Spurrell
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 322
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Author: Thomas Mardy Rees
Publisher: Carmarthen, Spurrell
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Mardy REES
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Published: 1925
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Published: 1925
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Published: 1894
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip S. Klein
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 651
ISBN-13: 027103839X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James J. Levick
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Published: 1854
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard C. Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-28
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ISBN-13: 9781472455888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the emigration to colonial Pennsylvania of Welsh members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), this book appraises their experiences during a period of unparalleled change. It begins by exploring why Welsh Quakers left their homes and families for an unknown future, thousands of miles away, in a new and largely unsettled colony. The persecution they endured under the Clarendon Code was clearly a âe~pushâe(tm) factor, but it is argued that William Pennâe(tm)s project to establish a Quaker colony proved to be an overwhelmingly attractive proposition. While for some, Pennsylvania offered economic and social opportunities not available in Wales, the majority appear to have been driven by more idealistic goals, namely the belief that they could salvage what was left of their religious communities and provide a safe and ethical environment for their children. The book charts their patterns of settlement and considers the challenges they encountered as they adapted to the complexities of multi-ethnic Pennsylvanian life. It brings fresh insights into their religious ethos, the dynamics of Quaker family and community life: their business networks and philanthropic activities, their political and social influence, and the empowerment of women. Above all, it delivers a more textured and sophisticated understanding of the experiences of these emigrants and their relationship with the wider movement in Britain, and situates this in the broader context of early-modern emigration to the American colonies.
Author: Amherst Barry Levy Assistant Professor of History University of Massachusetts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988-06-30
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0198021674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmericans have an unusually strong family ideology. We believe that morally self-sufficient nuclear households must serve as the foundation of a republican society. In this brilliant history, Barry Levy traces this contemporary view of family life all the way back to the Quakers. _____ Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the Puritans in New England. The Quaker emphasis was on affection, friendship and hospitality. They stressed the importance of women in the home, and of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. _____ This book explains how and why the Quakers' had such a profound cultural impact (and why more so in Pennsylvania and America than in England); and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system can tell us about American family ideology. ______ Who were the Northwest British Quakers and why did their family system so impress English, French, and New England reformers--Voltaire, Crevecouer, Brissot, Emerson, George Bancroft, Lydia Maria Child, and Lousia May Alcott, to name just a few? To answer this question, Levy tells the story of a large group of Quaker farmers from their development of a new family and communal life in England in the 1650s to their emigration and experience in Pennsylvania between 1681 and 1790. The book is thus simultaneously a trans-Atlantic community study of the migration and transplantation of ordinary British peoples in the tradition of Sumner Chilton Powell's Puritan Village; the story of the formation and development of a major Anglo-American faith; and an exploration of the origins of American family ideology.
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Published: 1924
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vivienne Sanders
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Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781786837905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.