Prisoners of Congress
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09507-3 (ISBN)
Prisoners of Congress reconstructs this moment in American history through the experiences of four families: the Drinkers, the Fishers, the Pembertons, and the Gilpins. Identifying them as the new nation’s first political prisoners, Norman E. Donoghue II relates how the Quakers, once the preeminent power in Pennsylvania and an integral constituency of the colonies and early republic, came to be reviled by patriots who saw refusal to fight the English as borderline sedition.
Surprising, vital, and vividly told, this narrative of political and literal warfare waged by the United States against a pacifist religious group during the Revolutionary War era sheds new light on an essential aspect of American history. It will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the nation’s founding.
Norman E. Donoghue II is an independent historian of American Quakerism based in Philadelphia. His website is prisonersofcongress.com.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Dramatis Personae: The Quaker Exiles of 1777–1778, Their Nemeses, and the Women’s Mission
Introduction
1. Quaker Rebellion
2. Quaker Refusals
3. Friends as Enemies
4. Quaker Arrests
5. Peaceable Caravan
6. Virginia Exiles
7. Quaker Home Front
8. Quaker Peace Mission
9. Quaker Ordeals
10. Winter Stress
11. Shadow of Death
12. “Entirely an Act of Our Own”
13. “Able Politicians”
14. Release and Return
Coda: Reintegration, or Not
Epilogue
Homage
Appendix A: Combined Timeline of the Quaker Exile (September 11, 1777–April 30, 1778) amid the Philadelphia Campaign (August 25, 1777–June 18, 1778), Including Governance of the City
Appendix B: Israel Pemberton et al., [Protest] “To the President and Council of Pennsylvania,” September 8, 1777
Appendix C: The Women’s Petition, April 1778
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | University Park |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-09507-5 / 0271095075 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09507-3 / 9780271095073 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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