Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

Illustrations for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Images of Quakers or Friends


"Quaker Jane" website on "Plain Dress" and other Quaker subjects: http://quakerjane.com/index.php?fuseaction=plain_dress


Quaker wedding

Quaker man


Quaker women ca. 1900


Quaker woman speaking at religious service
(at time when other denominations forbade women speaking in church)


early Quaker meeting
(Note absence of central altar; Quakers spoke from "inner light," which enabled women's religious speech.)


Quakers are a statistically small part of American religious population but maintain profile for pacifism and social justice.