Pausanias and Goose Creek Quakers
Pausanias (AD 110- C 180) was a Greek geographer and author of travel books which included his observations about people andContinue Reading
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John J. Janney, father of Elizabeth Hopkins Janney
John Jones Janney, a prominent Quaker merchant in Alexandria, Virginia, had the end of his life described in an extraordinaryContinue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists and the 1820’s Manumission and Emigration movement
The Library of Virginia, in their Out of the Box archives, has a series of articles about the anti-slavery and abolitionist societies which spreadContinue Reading
Ulysses S. Grant and Loudoun County Quakers
“During all of the trying winter of 1860-1, when the Southerners were so defiant that they would not allow withinContinue Reading
