Quaker history and biography

This is a fascinating record of a small community living out its distinctive religious witness in the everyday, navigating internal and external pressures in a rapidly changing context.

Memoirs of David Ferris (1707-1779).Testimony of Wilmington Meeting.

The book is about a Scottish couple, James Finlayson (1770-1852) and Margaret Wilkie (1776?-1855) who navigated their lives through the upheavals of 18th and 19th century wars, revolutions and presbyterian schisms.

A humble tailor and apple-grower from New Jersey, John Woolman became one of the leading voices against the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century.

Author Jennifer Kavanagh, shares her moments of discovery while addressing themes of Russia, Jewishness, motherhood, music, home, and language, as well as the vagaries of memory.

What should a good man do when he acquires fifty slaves (and is in love with on of them)?

William Shewen was an early-convinced and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends in London in the mid to late seventeenth century; he was also the author of a number of tracts and books.

William Drewett wrote his memoir in the 1890s, largely from the perspective of retirement. He recalls not only the changing ways of Quakers in his own life time, but also recounts stories passed down from his parents.