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Fit for Freedom Authors Interviewed on Northern Spirit Radio

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Mark Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio discusses Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship with authors Vanessa Julye and Donna McDaniel. Click on the link below to listen!

http://www.northernspiritradio.org/index.asp?command=showinfo&showid=500573538863

Fit for Freedom featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer!

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Authors Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye and their book Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship was recently featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer.  

Check it out!

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090205_Quaker_mythbusters.html

 

What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July?

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An abridged version of the July 4 1852 oration delivered by Frederick Douglass to the Rochester (NY) Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.

Donna McDaniel Sets the Facts Straight about Paul Cuffe

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Donna McDaniel

Donna McDaniel’s letter, "A closer look at sea captain Cuffe’s colonial aspirations, Quaker ties," on the March 6, 2008 Boston-Bay State Banner’s editorial page corrected misrepresentations in an article, "Sea Captain Paul Cuffe Makes Waves in Business."

An Interview with Margaret Hope Bacon

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Angelina Conti’s interview with Margaret Hope Bacon offers insights into this popular Quaker historian, writer, and activist’s life and work.

American Anti-Slavery and Civil War Timeline

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The Independence Hall Association

The Independence Hall Association presents a helpful timeline.

In Light and Shadow: Friends and Slavery

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About the Author: 
Dr. Paul Kriese is Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana.
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Paul Kriese

Paul Kriese, presented this message to members of the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage on July 19, 2006 at Wilmington College.

“I am the vine, you are the branches…now what fruit shall we bear?” (John 15)

“It is time for Friends to learn and understand our complete history” (Vanessa Julye)

 
Introduction

The vine is the knowledge that “there is that of God in everyone.” The branches demonstrate the various paths that this ‘knowledge’ takes. The fruit (witness, faith stance) will look different when it is presented to others.

Human experience lives in light and in shadow. The George Fox song suggests that “there is an “ocean of darkness” and an “ocean of light.” We need to look to both of these experiences to understand the different witnesses recorded and held. The history of the Religious Society of Friends is a compilation of different ‘branches’ bearing different harvests from the same ‘vine’. The experience of Friends in the United States is testimony to this reality.