![3732732] Poems. Henry Kent](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732732_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680642479)
Poems.
Posthumously-published collection of poems written by the Quaker abolitionist, reformer, and poet Henry Simmons Kent (d. 1906), affiliated with the Swarthmore Friends of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania..... Read More about Poems
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![3731284] Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731284_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641608484)
Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland, compiled by Their Daughter, Mary Leadbeater, including a Concise Biographical Sketch, and Some Letters, of Her Grandfather, Abraham Shackleton. A New Edition, Containing many valuable Letters never before published.
Schoolmaster, poet, and Quaker Richard Shackleton (1726-1792) was the son of Abraham Shakleton (an ancestor of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton), a Quaker educator who in..... Read More about Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland, compiled by...
![3731209] Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories. M. D. Ruth Clement](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731209_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638342302)
Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories.
Ruth Clement was a Quaker physician. Where she earned her medical degree is unknown, but in her book —a mixture of poetry, short stories, and..... Read More about Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories
![3730722] Account of Ruth Anna Lindley, A Minister of the Gospel in the Religious Society of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730722_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632351967)
Account of Ruth Anna Lindley, A Minister of the Gospel in the Religious Society of Friends.
Memorial biography and autobiographical memoir of the conversion of Quaker minister Ruth Anna Lindley (1768–1810) of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was a convert from the..... Read More about Account of Ruth Anna Lindley, A Minister of the Gospel in the Religious Society of Friends
![3730580] [Hicksite Controversy and Quakers:] A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730580_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624502592)
[Hicksite Controversy and Quakers:] A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, respecting the proceedings of those who have lately separated from the Society: and also, shewing, the contrast between their doctrines and those held by friends.
Scarce pamphlet documenting the important schism within the Quaker faith —a nationwide rift— between the followers of Elias Hicks and the remaining orthodox membership. “In..... Read More about Hicksite Controversy and Quakers:] A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in...
![3730450] Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730450_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620792374)
Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African Slave Trade. [caption title]
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
![3727548] An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727548_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1535567313)
An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof, composing the Yearly meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, by the committee appointed at the late Yearly meeting to have charge of the subject of slavery.
This address exhorts fellow Quakers to righteously oppose slavery; to avoid using products derived from slave labor; to attend to the moral and education uplifting..... Read More about An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof, composing...
![3726128] An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726128_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565731848)
An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and Cure of Diseases [Presentation Copy]
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates..... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and...
![3726062] 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726062_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534362329)
1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education and Prisons, and Jurist.
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
![143728] 1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia. W P....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/143728_1.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1534362270)
1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia.
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of..... Read More about 1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia
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