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gray_ghost ([personal profile] gray_ghost) wrote2007-05-04 08:32 am

The Religious Society of Friends

AKA - the Quakers

OMG - you do not get a much simpler website design than that. Currently reading this really cool book by Adam Hochschild (one of the hippy co-founders of Mother Jones magazine) called Bury the Chains, which, as you might guess - is about the formation of the early Abolitionist movement in England. So - the Quakers have been on my mind recently, since they were the primary instigators of that movement in both England and the States. Kind of like the 18th century version of our ACLU.

[identity profile] mobox.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know many other people that read Mother Jones. Kudos.

PS: Found you via Savanna HS page.

[identity profile] gray-ghost.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Holy shit! What year did you graduate?

[identity profile] mobox.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
88!
It feels like a hundred years ago. UGH.

[identity profile] gray-ghost.livejournal.com 2007-05-05 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
I graduated in 91. And it does feel like ages ago, doesn't it? No Internet - just BBS boards and really slow computers. I remember programming on an Apple IIe in Mrs. Schmauss's computer class.

Anyway - thanks for stopping by =)