Download or read book Quaker Carpetbagger written by Max Longley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Quaker Carpetbagger written by Max Longley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A carpet Bagger in South Carolina written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philadelphia Quakers in the Industrial Age 1865 1920 written by Philip S. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carpetbagger s Crusade written by Otto H. Olsen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fit for Freedom Not for Friendship written by Donna McDaniel and published by Quakerpress of Fgc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book My Old Carpetbagger written by Taylor Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, not all Southemers were secessionists. Not all Yankees who later came south were "carpetbaggers" bent on exploiting their former foes. This book portrays exceptions to both rules - Simon Elliot Chamberlin, a Union cavalry officer who relocated to northern Virginia, and Edith Matthews, daughter of a Quaker family in Confederate Virginia. Their separate wartime experiences would deeply influence their subsequent courtship and marriage. His military career, especially with the 25* NIY. Cavalry and its defense of Washington in 1864, is set against the contemporancous experiences of young Edith and her farming family, part of a pro-Unionist enclave in Loudoun County that paid a heavy price for its support of the North. Navigating between a shared love for Virginia's Piedmont and opposition to the former secessionists return to power was not easy. After a go at running, Elliot parlayed skill as a political activist among Union veterans to become chairman of Virginia's Republican Party during Reconstruction, putting him on a collision path with an old foe, John Mosby. Later as Treasury special agent, he helped uncover corruption and fraud from the N. Y. customhouse to faraway Cuba, yet at times seemed oblivious to failings closer to home. Through it all, we get to witness first hand the Chamberlin family grapple with immense changes that beset the nation and federal government during the last decades of the 19% century.
Download or read book A Quaker Home written by George Fox Tucker and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Brands and Their Companies written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to trade names, brand names, product names, coined names, model names, and design names, with addresses of their manufacturers, importers, marketers, or distributors.
Download or read book The Fair Quaker of Deal Etc written by Charles Shadwell and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Quaker Home written by George Fox Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Yankee Quaker Confederate General written by Charles M. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Fighting Quakers A True Story of the War for Our Union 1866 written by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book My Quaker Maid Classic Reprint written by Marah Ellis Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Quaker Maid Gallop! gallop! gallop! rode two men in the spring time of their lives, and the spring of the year as it smiles on Northern Maryland. All the sweet odors of the new-turned soil, and the fragrance of the first orchards, swept past them, and the pink petals of peach trees made rosy spots near and far through the clearings. But neither of the gentlemen riders, nor the slender colored boy with a portmanteau pegging along in their rear, gave aught of heed to the road side beauties. Occasionally one or the other would glance back over shoulder when some eminence was reached, but their speed was only checked where a hamlet was passed; a field where curious farmers rested on their plow handles to stare at the unusual strangers traveling along the back road; for a bit unusual they certainly appeared to the rural eye, despite the red clay of the country on man and beast. Their horses were magnificent animals - to be given notice for their breeding anywhere, and their equipment was in keeping; while the fine gray coats of their riders could not all conceal the costume of men of fashion in the fifties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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