American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the present |
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Later Americans have hymned it as the very cradle of our democracy , where all those , such as the Quakers , who were hounded and imprisoned and even put to death for their beliefs by Puritans and other tyrants , were able to find haven ...
Later Americans have hymned it as the very cradle of our democracy , where all those , such as the Quakers , who were hounded and imprisoned and even put to death for their beliefs by Puritans and other tyrants , were able to find haven ...
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Fox and one of the Quaker participants in the Williams debate , John Burnyeat , drew up an answer to Williams ... [ The following modernized selection from Williams ' account , relating how the Quakers finally took up his gage and how ...
Fox and one of the Quaker participants in the Williams debate , John Burnyeat , drew up an answer to Williams ... [ The following modernized selection from Williams ' account , relating how the Quakers finally took up his gage and how ...
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In the 18th Century , Quakerism was a more respectable heresy , well - established in several of the American colonies . John Woolman , born at Northampton , New Jersey , was one of the most distinguished of American Quaker missionaries ...
In the 18th Century , Quakerism was a more respectable heresy , well - established in several of the American colonies . John Woolman , born at Northampton , New Jersey , was one of the most distinguished of American Quaker missionaries ...
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