"Growing up Quaker" in the Civil War era by John PowersPublication Date: 2006
This History Department senior thesis "explores the context of family life and a college founded by and for Quakers, Haverford College, as the conflict between the southern slave states and the northern non-slave states erupted in Civil War, spurring a "crisis" within the Society of Friends. A look at the lives of two bright young Haverford students from Quaker families, one of whom went on to fight in the war while the other did not, encourages us to look at influences beyond their common background, that shaped their attitudes about the war and other external events." -Author abstract
