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Control # 1 2022061221
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20240228135615.0
Fixed Data 8 230109t20232023pauab b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2022061221
ISBN 20    $a9780271095073$q(cloth)
Obsolete 39    $a335258$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aPSt/DLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---$an-us-pa$an-us-va
LC Call 50 00 $aE269.F8$bD66 2023
Dewey Class 82 00 $a973.3088/2896$223/eng/20230118
ME:Pers Name 100 $aDonoghue, Norman E.,$cII,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aPrisoners of Congress :$bPhiladelphia's Quakers in exile, 1777-1778 /$cNorman E. Donoghue II.
Tag 264 264  1 $aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$bThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$c[2023]
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2023
Phys Descrpt 300    $axix, 268 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aQuaker rebellion -- Quaker refusals -- Friends as enemies -- Quaker arrests -- Peaceable caravan -- Virginia exiles -- Quaker home front -- Quaker peace mission -- Quaker ordeals -- Winter stress -- Shadow of death -- "Entirely an act of our own" -- "Able politicians" -- Release and return.
Abstract 520    $a"In 1777, Congress labeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Independence as "the most Dangerous Enemies America knows" and ordered Pennsylvania and Delaware to apprehend them. In response, Keystone State officials sent twenty men- seventeen of whom were Quakers- into exile, banishing them to Virginia, where they were held for a year. Prisoners of Congress reconstructs this moment in American history through the experiences of four families: the Drinkers, the Fishers, the Pembertons, and the Gilpins. Identifying them as the new nation's first political prisoners, Norman E. Donoghue II relates how the Quakers, once the preeminent power in Pennsylvania and an integral constituency of the colonies and early republic, came to be reviled by patriots who saw refusal to fight the English as borderline sedition. Surprising, vital, and vividly told, this narrative of political and literal warfare waged by the United States against a pacifist religious group during the Revolutionary War era sheds new light on an essential aspect of American history. It will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the nation's founding." --Dust jacket flap.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSociety of Friends$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSociety of Friends$zVirginia$zWinchester$xHistory$y18th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aExiles$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y18th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aExiles$zVirginia$zWinchester$xHistory$y18th century.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xReligious aspects$xSociety of Friends.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xConscientious objectors.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWinchester (Va.)$xHistory$y18th century.