Quaker Carpetbagger

Author : Max Longley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637747

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Quaker Carpetbagger by Max Longley Pdf

J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and was active in the Progressive Friends Meeting, a national group of activist Quakers and allied reformers who met annually in Chester County. Williams and his associates discussed vital matters of the day, from slavery to prohibition to women's rights. These issues sometimes came to Thorne's doorstep--he met with nationally prominent reformers, and thwarted kidnappers seeking to enslave one of his free black tenants. After the Civil War, Williams became a "carpetbagger," moving to North Carolina to pursue farming and politics. An "infidel" Quaker (anti-Christian), he was opposed by Democrats who sought to keep him out of the legislature on account of his religious beliefs. Today a little-known figure in history, Williams made his mark through his outspokenness and persistent battling for what he believed.

Author : Max Longley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476669854

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Quaker Carpetbagger by Max Longley Pdf

J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and was active in the Progressive Friends Meeting, a national group of activist Quakers and allied reformers who met annually in Chester County. Williams and his associates discussed vital matters of the day, from slavery to prohibition to women's rights. These issues sometimes came to Thorne's doorstep--he met with nationally prominent reformers, and thwarted kidnappers seeking to enslave one of his free black tenants. After the Civil War, Williams became a "carpetbagger," moving to North Carolina to pursue farming and politics. An "infidel" Quaker (anti-Christian), he was opposed by Democrats who sought to keep him out of the legislature on account of his religious beliefs. Today a little-known figure in history, Williams made his mark through his outspokenness and persistent battling for what he believed.

Author : Otto H. Olsen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421430959

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Carpetbagger's Crusade by Otto H. Olsen Pdf

Originally published in 1965. The Supreme Court's momentous school desegregation decision of 1954 was a postmortem victory for Albion Tourgée. Just fifty-eight years earlier this once-famous carpetbagger's attack on segregation was crushed in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. His legal defeat in 1896 typified his frustrated but prophetic career. Tourgée was an idealistic Union veteran who ventured south in 1865. As an advocate of civil rights, political equality, free schools, and penal reform, he was elected to North Carolina's Constitutional Convention of 1868. Olsen records both the fierce struggles and the impressive accomplishments that filled Tourgée's fourteen years in the South. With the collapse of the Southern experiment, Tourgée was inspired to turn to fiction to express his convictions. A Fool's Errand by One of the Fools and Bricks without Straw were classics of their day, providing absorbing accounts and defenses of radical Reconstruction. In 1879 Tourgée went north, where he renewed and extended his crusade for Negro equality by writing, lecturing, and lobbying. For many years he was the most militant and persistent advocate of racial equality in the nation. He was also a vigorous critic of the industrial age, demanding the utilization of federal power in behalf of equality, democracy, and economic justice.

Author : Donna McDaniel,Vanessa Julye
Publisher : Quakerpress of Fgc
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1888305800

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Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship by Donna McDaniel,Vanessa Julye Pdf

Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye document three centuries of Quakers who were committed to ending racial injustices yet, with few exceptions, hesitated to invite African Americans into their Society. Addressing racism among Quakers of yesterday and today, the authors believe, is the path toward a racially inclusive community.

Author : Philip S. Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009146013

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The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age, 1865-1920 by Philip S. Benjamin Pdf

Author : Louis Freeland Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019180512

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A "carpet Bagger" in South Carolina by Louis Freeland Post Pdf

Author : Henry Tazewell Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Reconstruction
ISBN : UOM:39015055392628

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Ousting the Carpetbagger from South Carolina by Henry Tazewell Thompson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124489787

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles M. Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Generals
ISBN : UOM:39015002683228

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Yankee Quaker, Confederate General by Charles M. Cummings Pdf

He had written to a superior about profits that could be made in the "black-market" of Vera Cruz. Two modern successful schools trace their descent from the military academy in Kentucky and Tennessee that Johnson next operated, but the guns at Fort Sumter closed his classes in 1861. To return to the Union Army would revise the old scandal, so he joined the Confederacy's forces at the same time that his own abolitionist kinfolk were helping the underground railroad in Indiana. Johnson's troops did most of the fighting at Fort Donelson; he slipped away from his captors after the surrender to Grant. Then he was wounded at Shiloh. His brigade spearheaded the assault on the union center at Perryville. First perceived the "gap" in Rosecrans lines at Chickamauga, he led the smashing attack that set off the disintegration of the Union right wing, which was saved from complete route only by the stand of his classmate George Thomas on Snodgrass Hill. Johnson was promoted to Maj. Gen.

Author : Caroline Emelia Stephen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387080797

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Quaker Strongholds by Caroline Emelia Stephen Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Dick Tahta
Publisher : Germinal Productions, Limited/ Black Apollo Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ararat (Motion picture)
ISBN : UOM:39076002868664

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Ararat Associations by Dick Tahta Pdf

When he first saw Atom Egoyan's film, Ararat, Dick Tahta was intrigued by the many associations it summoned up for him. The film is crammed with brief conversations and scenes that linked with memories of his childhood in a small Armenian community in Manchester in the nineteen-thirties and with the various aspects of Armenian culture that are - as in any immigrant community - carefully nourished by Armenians all over the world. Above all, the film delicately raises the issue of what later generations have made of the terrible experiences of their ancestors in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. As well as giving a penetrating insight into Egoyan's film, Tahta offers some fascinating interpretations of Armenian history, religion, language and literature. His digressions into youthful memories, family history and his own travels through Eastern Anatolia, give this book a warm and personal feel. Dick Tahta was born in Manchester, of parents who had survived the events of 1915. They were keen for their children to have an English education but made sure that they spoke Armenian at home. As a second-generation immigrant, he was interested (like some of the characters in the film) in the nature of identity and its definition by criteria other than ethnicity. He raised four children with his late wife Hilary; he was a mathematics teacher and then a university lecturer. Now he is retired and is a widower and grandfather.

Author : Caroline Emelia Stephen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783368910136

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Quaker Strongholds by Caroline Emelia Stephen Pdf

Author : Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Quaker universities and colleges
ISBN : UVA:X000441460

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Guilford, a Quaker College by Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Quakers
ISBN : UOM:39015029187609

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Quaker Biographies: Mary Anna Longstreth, by R. N. Taylor. Eli and Sybil Jones, by M. H. Jones. Allen Jay, by A. H. Votaw. Archibald Crosbie, by H. Standing. Caroline E. Stephen, by G. Crosfield. John Bacon Crenshaw, by M. E. Crenshaw. Joel and Hannah Elliott Bean, by C. E. B. Cox by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Fox Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Quakers
ISBN : HARVARD:HX54RL

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A Quaker Home by George Fox Tucker Pdf