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MtP1803

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American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier

A true account of life on the Ohio frontier in the early

1800s. A fascinating insight into daily domestic life.

The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt

A balanced account of the nat turner insurrection, ultimately the beginning of the second great migration

Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer

Fleet Walker was born in Mt Pleasant October 7, 1856

of QUAKERS FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTHWEST

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton

Benjamin Lay, a Quaker Dwarf and hermit who demanded

unconditional emancipation of slaves in 1738

The story of Edwin Stanton. His Grandmother, Abigail, settled outside of Mt Pleasant in 1800 and was among the first of the quakers to settle here

Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and the Civil War

Slavery and the Meetinghouse

Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War

The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina

Bonnie Belmont

Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit

Many of the earliest Quakers to settle around Mt Pleasant were from North Carolina

a newly edited version of the classic. classified as fiction, it is considered factual by most