Frederick Barnes Tolles (1915–1975)
Author of Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763
About the Author
Works by Frederick Barnes Tolles
Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia 1682-1763 (1948) 183 copies, 2 reviews
Quaker Testimonies in Daily Life 2 copies
A life of sarch 1 copy
Associated Works
The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman (1971) — Introduction, some editions — 363 copies, 3 reviews
Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes, 1754 ; Considerations on keeping Negroes, 1762 (1976) — Afterword — 25 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Tolles, Frederick Barnes
- Birthdate
- 1915-04-18
- Date of death
- 1975-04-18
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Harvard University
- Occupations
- historian
professor emeritus - Organizations
- Swarthmore College
Huntington Library
California Institute of Technology
Friends Historical Society of Swarthmore - Awards and honors
- Haverford College (LittD)
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New Hampshire, USA
- Place of death
- Wallingford, Pennsylvania, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Meeting house and counting house: the Quaker merchants of colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763 by Frederick B. Tolles
The "holy experiment" of the Quakers involved political hegemony and economic wealth. Gradually the Quakers realized that they had become involved in the compromises fatal to the spiritual integrity of the Society of Friends itself. The political crisis of 1756 hastened this realization, and the Quaker merchants abandoned the outward plantations and turned again to the plantations within.
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 4.4
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 8