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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, also displays a fondness for a fast horse and a lively tune. With their children, they must negotiate their way through a world that constantly confronts them-sometimes...
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English
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The further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of The Friendly Persuaion. With family growing, the young Quakers go westward encountering the bitterness and savagery that explode into the Civil War, later guiding their children through the confusing aftermath.
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English
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Levi Coffin and his wife Catherine risked their lives helping thousands of men, women, and children escape from slavery in Kentucky and further south. This edited and abridged edition of Coffin's "Reminiscences" includes hundreds of dramatic stories told by the former slaves as they passed through his home, following the northern star to freedom.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Throughout its 200-year history, Indiana Yearly Meeting has been both a foundation and a springboard, creating a firm heritage for those to have responded to Christ. As those people have been moved by God to innovate, create, and take a risk here and there, even more life and vitality have come. These pages record the people and activities of IYM over the past 200 years, and hopefully will serve as a springboard into new places as Jesus Christ continues...
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Biography of the reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Begins briefy with Levi Coffin's early efforts against slavery in North Carolina and Indiana. The focus is on Coffin's abolitionist activities in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1847 through the Civil War and his work on behalf of freed blacks after the war.
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English
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While Daniel Boone is today remembered as the most famous and illustrious of his family, many generations of Boones before and after embodied the early American spirit of exploration, migration and adventure. This book traces the Boone family through 11 generations, starting with ancestors in 17th-century England and continuing through the Revolutionary War to the 19th century. Numerous manscripts, wills and land deeds from Boone family history are...
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