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Film, Video This Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution

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Title

  • This Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution

Summary

  • Despite their history of pacifism, Philadelphia Quakers were deeply entangled in the American Revolution. When a small number of disowned Friends came together in February 1781 to form a group they called "The Society of Friends Known by Some as the Free Quakers," they were motivated by the genuine desire for shared religious communion in keeping with the "fundamental Principals" of Quakerism -- but also by their shared support of Independence. Their organized dissent against the all-but-Loyalist Society of Friends was unprecedented, as was their appeal to Pennsylvania's radical Assembly for ongoing access to Friends' property on the basis of shared rights. When in 1784 the Free Quakers built a meeting house of their own, it embodied a set of newly intersecting cultural practices through its integration of Quaker traditional forms with an emerging early-national iconography. Drawing on a rich survival of primary documents -- including those housed in the Library's Marian S. Carson Collection -- this talk will explore the convergence of social, economic, political and religious factors that together shaped Philadelphia's Free Quakers as a movement and as a community. Can the contours of this smaller separation shed light on our understanding of the cultural upheavals of the Revolution itself?

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-09-22.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Religion
  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Immigration, American Expansion

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Susan Garfinkel.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-09-22.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688737

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. This Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-22, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688737/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2011) This Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-22. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688737/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. This Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-22, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688737/>.