Princeton NJ Events

Author: Jeffrey A. Denman, Princeton Public Library

Monday June 22, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Historian and author Jeffrey A. Denman presents his new book, "Philadelphia Quakers and the American Revolution." Registration requested, but not required.

About the book (from the publisher): Discover the history of Philadelphia's Quakers as they rose to power and prosperity and fell into peril. Fleeing political upheavals in England for settlement in the New World, Quakers rose to unprecedented economic and political power in the Pennsylvania colony. However, the failure of the Quaker-dominated government to provide for defense in the wars from the 1730s into the 1760s was the beginning of their downfall. By the Revolution, their fortunes had waned, and they were brutally suppressed by their political foes. Seventeen influential Friends and three others were exiled to Virginia without so much as a hearing, and Quaker farms and businesses were subject to depredations. Labeled dissenters by Loyalist and Patriot alike, they stood their ground, alone and isolated.

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