Myrtilla Miner
Myrtilla Miner is one of the many heroines of abolitionism. She wasn’t from a wealthy background, she had painful andContinue Reading
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Lincoln, Virginia Quakers bought an enslaved family and set them free.
On February 20, 1856, Samuel M. Janney wrote to Northern friend and fellow Quaker Jane Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. TheContinue Reading
Quaker William Tate and the Confederate 43rd Virginia Battalion
William Tate kept a Memo book in which he recorded who owed him money for fence rails, when his ewesContinue Reading
Confederates and Quakers
John Singleton Mosby’s 43rd Battalion, a Confederate partisan ranger unit fighting under Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart, led a highlyContinue Reading
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