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X-WR-CALNAME:Lecture - "Prisoners of Congress:  Philadelphia's Quakers in E
 xile 1777-1778"
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DESCRIPTION:This event is in-person ONLY and will be held in the Washington
  Crossing Historic Park Visitor Center Auditorium.\n\nIn 1777\, Congress l
 abeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Indepen
 dence as “the most Dangerous Enemies America knows” and ordered Pennsy
 lvania and Delaware to apprehend them. In response\, Keystone State offici
 als sent twenty men—seventeen of whom were Quakers—into exile\, banish
 ing them to Virginia\, where they were held for a year.\n\nPrisoners of Co
 ngress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile\, 1777-1778 (Penn State University
  Press\, 2023) reconstructs this moment in American history through the ex
 periences of four families: the Drinkers\, the Fishers\, the Pembertons\, 
 and the Gilpins. Identifying them as the new nation’s first political pr
 isoners\, Norman E. Donoghue II relates how the Quakers\, once the preemin
 ent power in Pennsylvania and an integral constituency of the colonies and
  early republic\, came to be reviled by patriots who saw refusal to fight 
 the English as borderline sedition.\n\nSurprising\, vital\, and vividly to
 ld\, this narrative of political and literal warfare waged by the United S
 tates against a pacifist religious group during the Revolutionary War era 
 sheds new light on an essential aspect of American history. It will appeal
  to anyone interested in learning more about the nation’s founding.\n\nD
 r. Patrick Spero\, the former Librarian & Director of the American Philoso
 phical Society's Library & Museum\, has written of Ned’s book that it 
 “brings to life one of the most important and compelling events of the A
 merican Revolution in Philadelphia” and that it is “an untold story of
  national significance.” \n\nThe talk will be held in-person at Washingt
 on Crossing Historic Park. Books will be available for purchase and a book
  signing with the author will be held after the talk.\n\nThe event is free
  to attend but registration is required. Please register here to attend in
 -person.\n\nThis event is hosted by the David Center for the American Revo
 lution at the American Philosophical Society. This event will take place o
 n Wednesday\, September 27\, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. ET at the Visitor Center in
  Washington Crossing. \n\nCan't make it? Join us instead at the APS on Wed
 nesday\, September 20 at 12:00 p.m. for Lunch at the Library! Details here
 .
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LOCATION:Washington Crossing Historic Park
SUMMARY:Lecture - "Prisoners of Congress:  Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile 
 1777-1778"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.dcnr.pa.gov/event/lecture_-_prisoners_of_congr
 ess_philadelphias_quakers_in_exile_1777-1778
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