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- Title
THE NANTUCKET QUAKERS' MESSAGE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S MESSAGE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- Authors
Louis, Jeanne Henriette
- Abstract
Discusses the contrasting messages of American Friends and of Benjamin Franklin, thought in France to be a Quaker, to the advocates of the French Revolution in the 1790s. How Nantucket, Massachusetts became the extension of the Holy Experiment after its demise in Pennsylvania, for mission work and transmission of Quaker message; Origins of French Quakerism; Details on the Quaker petition presentation to the French National Assembly in 1791.
- Subjects
NANTUCKET (Mass.); UNITED States; QUAKERS; FRANKLIN, Benjamin, 1706-1790; FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799
- Publication
Quaker Studies, 2000, Vol 5, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1363-013X
- Publication type
Article