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JennGM
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Posted: July 03 2010 at 6:06pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I keep running across regional and historical fiction that includes Quakers and Amish. I just read Hitty by Rachel Field and she lives with a Quaker family around Civil War times.

Marguerine de Angeli has books about Amish and Quakers, and so does Lois Lenski. Stephen Meader was a Quaker, so his books have some reflection of that.

What I'm wondering is do you find a huge impact of the Quakers and Amish on American History, or is it because of their uniqueness that they are always included?

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Don't know of any huge impact of Amish, unless you live in an area where they are numerous, and so more likely to have some influence.
The Quakers, now.... Thinking about the Underground Railroad, Abolition, conscientious objectors/people doing alternate service in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, lots of times and places the American Friends Service Committee has given aid. Both are pacifist sects, but the Quakers are much more likely than the Amish to be involved in large scale, beyond their own community issues.

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