"Being a Peaceable Man, I have Suffered Much Persecution": The American Revolution and Its Effects on Quaker Religious Identity

Neva Jean Specht

doi:10.1353/qkh.2010.0004

"Being a Peaceable Man, I have Suffered Much Persecution": The American Revolution and Its Effects on Quaker Religious Identity

Neva Jean Specht

Appalachian State University

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Original language	American English
Journal	Quaker History
Volume	99
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/qkh.2010.0004
State	Published - Jan 1 2010

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Law
Social and Cultural Anthropology
History

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