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InGRID LeLos University of Texas, Austin The Sufferings of a "Captive Maid" Jane Fenn From the tumultuous founding of the Society of Friends in midseventeenth-century England to colonial troubles in Pennsylvania a century later, Quakers consistently recognized the power of the printed word to document, preach, and inspire the community to continue their unorthodox worship in the face of adversity. In revolutionary England, personal narratives that recounted violence, humiliation, and imprisonment spurred on fellow Friends to endure similar persecution. A century later, English Friends reprinted these narratives for their American brothers and sisters "to animate Succeeding Generations to come up in the like faithfulness to their Christian Testimony" (qtd. in Carrol 73).1 More specifically, they reprinted the founding Quaker narratives to inspire pacifism as the French and Indian War threatened both the Pennsylvania frontier and the Holy Experiment. But the early narratives of English Friends, so useful in their day, did not resonate with later colonists. Whereas seventeenth-century narratives recounted the progressive social and political activism of early Quakers and a spirituality that featured the body as the site of prophecy and suffering, eighteenth-century Quakers enjoyed a privileged social and political position in Pennsylvania and their beliefs now
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 30, 2009
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