Quaker history and biography

The name of Martha Simmons would have been well known amongst the members of the London book trade in the 1650s as her husband, Thomas Simmons, and her brother Giles Calvert, were the first two major Quaker publishers.

This book will be of interest to all who know Marjorie Sykes, in India and elsewhere, to those connected with Gandhian movements, to Quakers around the world and to any who value learning of a life lived with positive porpose.

Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker services, they were almost never admitted to full "meeting" membership,as was Miles Lassiter.His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19thcentury color line into the 20th