Taking sides
Peter Boyce reflects on the journal of Elias Hicks
I have been reading the journal of the American Quaker Elias Hicks (1748-1830). For the most part, this journal is about the visits he made to Quarterly and Yearly Meetings at a distance from his own Meeting on Long Island. Many of these movements took place at the time of the civil war between the British colonies of North America and the ‘mother country’.
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