Articles and Publications

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The latest works on Quakers and Native Americans include Dawn Peterson’s Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017), and a conversation between anthropologist Richard J. “Dick” Preston and Richard T. McCutcheon, “Are You Crying Because the Way Is Hard?: Linking Cree and Quaker Concerns in Dick’s Life Journey,” in Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations, edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S. H. Brown (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).

For the colonial era, Peter Smith examines the writing of Isaac Penington, Senior and Junior, in “Penington and Politics: Three Pamphlets Considered,” The Journal of the Friends Historical Society 66 (2015): 21–42. On the other side of the Atlantic, R. Scott Hanson considers the Flushing Remonstrance in “Religion in Vlissingen (Flushing) from 1645 to 1945,” in City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens, 31–63 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016). Quakers Patience Lovell Wright, Abigail Goodwin, and Alice Stokes Paul are included in Lynn Wenzel and Carol J. Binkowski, New Jersey’s Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2016). At the end of the era, we have Lew D. Feldman, “Samuel Nicholas, “The Fightin’ Quaker”,” Leatherneck 100, no. 7 (07, 2017): 48–50.

Turning specifically to colonial Pennsylvania, there are contributions from Richard C. Allen, Welsh Quaker Emigrants and Colonial Pennsylvania: Transatlantic Connections (London: Routledge, 2017); Brady J. Crytzer, War in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Kittanning Raid of 1756 (Yardley, Pa.: Westholme Publishing, 2016); and Patrick Spero, Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). New works on Philadelphia include Courtney Smith, “Wickedness and the Holy Experiment: Sports in Colonial Philadelphia,” in Philly Sports: Teams, Games, and Athletes from Rocky’s Town, edited by Ryan A. Swanson and David K. Wiggins, 1–18 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2016); Pink Dandelion, “The Layered Theoscape of Philadelphia: The Quaker Experiment as a Religious Crucible,” in Layered Landscapes: Early Modern Religious Space across Faiths and Cultures, edited by Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright, 150–166 (London: Routledge, 2017); and Dominic Mercier’s brief piece on William Penn’s vision for a green, safe Philadelphia, in “The Spirit of the Quaker City,” Architect 105, no. 5 (05, 2016): 98.

New studies on Quakers, slavery, and manumissions include Christy Clark-Pujara, “Emancipation in Black and White,” in Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island, 61–85 (New York: New York University Press, 2016); Michael Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard, “Navigation and Negotiation: Adaptive Strategies of a Free African American Family in Delaware,” in Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit, 71–82 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017); William Fernandez Hardin, “This Unpleasant Business,” Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 125, no. 3 (June 2017): 210–245; Samuel Charters, Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015); and Kenneth E. Lewis, The Carolina Backcountry Venture: Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740–1810 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2017). It has been a remarkable year for books about major abolitionists, including Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds., The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet 1713–1784: From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism (Leiden: Brill, 2017); Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017); and Gary B. Nash, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Other works on abolitionists include Roger N. Kirkman, Break Every Yoke: The North Carolina Manumission Society, 1816–1834 (Telikon Electronic Publishing, 2016); R. J. Ellis, “Joseph Sturge, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Free-Labor Movement,” in Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy...