Quakers -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Baltimore Yearly Meeting correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-013
Abstract
This collection contains the typed correspondence of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Dates:
1909
"Education of the Freedmen By Philadelphia and Baltimore Quakers During the Civil War and Reconstruction Period"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-094
Abstract
Frank O. Wargny's 1947 master's thesis at John Hopkins University, entitled "Education of the Freedmen by Baltimore Quakers during the Civil War and Reconstruction Period," describes the efforts of Philadelphia and Baltimore area Quakers to provide education to freed slaves during and after the Civil War. It provides a brief history of Philadelphia area Quakers' abolition efforts prior to the Civil War, including the work of Benezet and Woolman, but the majority of the manuscript focuses on...
Dates:
1947
