Repository: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Subject: Quaker prison reformers / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1655">1655</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1659">1659</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Repository Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Subject Quaker prison reformers Year 1655 to 1659

Extent:: 40 linear ft.
Abstract:: The Society of Friends or Quakers (today the terms are synonymous) was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century in England by George Fox and others. The Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Manuscripts is an artificial collection, established in the middle of the 20th century to store single and very small groups of manuscripts and documents, both originals and copies. The collection includes holdings relevant to antislavery, temperance, women's rights, penal reform, and other social concerns of Quakers in the United States and in England.

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