Come early and enjoy dinner at MaGerks before our meeting!!

Live Meeting at MaGerks Fort Washington – 582 S. Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington, PA 19034

We recommend that you get here before 6:30pm to order your food and drinks before the lecture.  Bring $1 or $5 cash for our used book raffle and you could win a Revolutionary War book!!  Program begins around 7:15pm, Lecture around 7:30pm.

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) started around 1650 in England. They were immediately persecuted in England, and other countries in Europe. In 1684, many Quakers emigrated to Pennsylvania, where they quickly rose to great economic and political power in the English colony. Pacifism was one of their core principals, and frustrations by non-Quakers in the colony about this policy led to challenges to the Quaker dominance of Pennsylvania. The American Revolution was an issue that was too large for Quakers to ignore, but totally incompatible with their pacifism. It caused the Quakers to be isolated as neither side in the conflict trusted them, and it also lead to the loss of political power by the Quakers. Historian Jeff Denman’s latest book takes readers through the rise and fall of Quakers in Pennsylvania, with a particular focus on the American Revolution.

Book Purchase: To purchase this book please click on this link:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1467159905

About the Author:  Historian Jeffrey A. Denman is co-author of Greene and Cornwallis: The Pivotal Struggle of the American Revolution, 1780-1781, and is the author of a forthcoming book to be released in the fall of 2023, John Quincy Adams, Reluctant Abolitionist. His research focuses primarily on the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries in American history.

Jeff is a graduate of the University of Maine and the University of Connecticut and is a retired teacher of American History and World Geography in the Brookline Public Schools, Brookline, Massachusetts. He has also written several articles dealing with various aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II in various historical publications.

To learn more or connect with Jeff, please visit https://www.jeffreyadenman.com