Mary Penington, who lived through the turbulent years of the English Civil War, is well known amongst Quakers as the mother-in-law of William ...
The English Quaker William Bennett finds in his travels: "They did but rarely complain. When inquired of what was the matter, the answer was alike in all - `Tha shein ukrosh'." He and his son set ...
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What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explainsThe image of the kneeling man in chains was first used in a seal commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, established by English Quakers in 1787. The seal shows a ...
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Reading Public Library accepts rare set of collected works of William Penn published in 1726The set is a comprehensive compilation of the writings of William Penn, 1644 to 1718, the English Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony. It includes a variety of his works, such as essays ...
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