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A Lenape among the Quakers
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ISBN: 0803254199 0803254180 9781461957270 1461957273 1306406048 9781306406048 9780803254190 9780803254183 9780803248403 0803248407 9780803254206 080327520X Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln

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On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency-a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately, however, it meant the final removal from the ancestral land she had so tenaciously maintained. Thus was William Penn's "peaceable kingdom" preserved. A Lenape among the Quakers reconstructs Hannah Freeman's history, traveling from the days of her grandmothers before European settleme


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Living with conflict
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ISBN: 0810886731 9780810886735 9780810886742 081088674X Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham

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In Living with Conflict: A Challenge to a Peace Church, Susan Robson explores the discomforts and denials that can arise when an organization committed to doing good suspects that it is not living up to its declared aims. This case study of Quakers in the United Kingdom closely examines the challenge of living constructively despite ever-present internal conflicts. Drawing on ideas from contemporary organizational theory, Robson's study points the way forward for Quakers and other value-based groups.

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