Articles and Publications

An annotated bibliography of the titles listed below is available at the Friends Historical Association website: www.haverford.edu/library/fha

Quaker Writings, an Anthology, 1650–1920, edited with an introduction by Thomas D. Hamm (Penguin Classics 2010) contains Quaker writings documenting the thought and experiences of Friends from George Fox in the 1640s to 1920.

Quakers first arose in a period of religious and political turmoil. Though not specifically about Quakers, David R. Adams, "The Secret Printing and Publishing Career of Richard Overton the Leveller, 1644–46," The Library, 11.1 (March 2010), 3-88, and Ariel Hessayon, "Early Modern Communism: The Diggers and Community of Goods," Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 3.2 (2010), 1-49, provide insight into the era immediately preceding the rise of Quakerism.

S.L.T. Apetrei, Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) contains extensive references to seventeenth-century Quaker women including Joan Whitrowe, Anne Docwra and Elizabeth Bathurst. Betty Hagglund, "Changes in Roles and Relationships: Multiauthored Epistles from the Aberdeen Quaker Women's Meeting," in Woman to Woman : Female Negotiations During the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Carolyn D. Williams, Angela Escott, and Louise Duckling (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010) examines epistles written between 1675 and 1700.

Amanda E. Herbert, "Companions in Preaching and Suffering: Itinerant Female Quakers in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 9.1 (2011), 73-113, explores the writings and tribulations of traveling women Friends, and concludes that "traveling Quaker women refigured seventeenth- and eighteenth-century constructions of the female body, femininity, and female sociability."

Two recent articles examine Quakers and slavery in Barbados and the West Indies in the seventeenth century: Kristen Block, "Cultivating Inner and Outer Plantations: Property, Industry, and Slavery in Early Quaker Migration to the New World," in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8.3 (2010), 515-548, and Katharine Gerbner, "The Ultimate Sin: Christianising Slaves in Barbados in the Seventeenth Century," in Slavery & Abolition, 31.1 (2010), 57-73.

Three articles examine the publishing and reading of Friends: David J. Hall, "What Should Eighteenth Century Quakers Have Read?" in The Journal of the Friends Historical Society 62.2 (2010), 103-110; Richard S. Harrison, "Quaker Publishing in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Ireland," in The Journal of the Friends Historical Society 62.2 (2010), 111-130, and David J. Hall, "Spreading Friends Books for Truths Service: The Distribution of Quaker Printed Literature in the Eighteenth Century," in The Journal of the Friends Historical Society 62.1 (2010), 3-24.

Clive D. Field, "Zion's People: Who Were the English Nonconformists?," Local Historian, 40.3 (2010), 208-223, compares the occupational structures of Quaker, Baptist and Congregational Nonconformists and includes data and analysis of Quaker occupations from 1650 to 1901. Local studies of English Quakers include Peter Collins, Quakers and Quakerism in Bolton, Lancashire 1650–1995: The History of a Religious Community, with a preface by Ben Pink Dandelion (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) and Richard C. Allen, "Nantucket Quakers and the Milford Haven Whaling Industry, c. 1791–1821," in Quaker Studies, 15.1 (Sept. 2010), 6-31.

Andrew R. Murphy, "Persecuting Quakers?: Liberty and Toleration in Early Pennsylvania," in The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America, edited by Chris Beneke and Christopher S. Grenda (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) looks at Pennsylvania's actions during the Keithian schism.

Pennsylvania's actions towards and conflicts with its Native American population in the mid eighteenth century are considered in Steven C. Harper, "Making History: Documenting the 1737 Walking Purchase," Pennsylvania History, 77.2 (Spring 2010), 217-233; in Jessica Choppin Roney, "'Ready to Act in Defiance of Government': Colonial Philadelphia Voluntary Culture and the Defense Association of 1747–1748," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8.2 (2010), 358-385; and John H. Brubaker, Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010). The Roney and Brubaker studies include extensive references to Quakers.

Joseph S. Tiedemann, "A Tumultuous People: The...