How the Quakers Invented America
Tuesday, September 04 2007
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Until the start of the eighteenth century, the only organized religion in North Carolina was the Religious Society of Friends…or, The Quakers. Their founding principles of peace, freedom and equality influenced not just the state’s earliest communities, but also our modern nation. Frank Stasio learns about the Quakers from David Yount, author of “How the Quakers Invented America” (Rowman & Littlefield/2007), Max Carter, director of the Guilford College Friends Center and Bill Leonard, dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School.
