Quaker Studies
Volume 10 | Issue 1 Article 7
2006 Gardina's "Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts" - Book Review Jeanne-Henriette Louis University of Orleans, [email protected]
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Quaker Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 108 QUAKER STUDIES QUAKER STUDIES 10/1 (2005) [109-126) ISSN 1363-013X 41. Olcutt Sanders, memo to Alex Morisey, 31 January 1957, folder: Information Services, Audio Visual Aids, Radio & Television- Correspondence, box: General Administration, 1957: Infom1ation Services to International Affairs Seminars ofWashington, AFSC. 42. Sanders, memo to Morisey. 43. Sanders, memo to Morisey. 44. Alex Morisey, memo 'Radio Programs' to Olcutt Sanders, 8 February 1957, folder: Inforn1ation Services, Audio Visual Aids, Radio & Television - Correspondence, box: General Administration, 1957: Inforn1ation Servicesto International AffairsSeminars ofWashington, AFSC. 45. Morisey, memo 'Radio Programs' to Sanders. 46. Morisey, memo 'Radio Programs' to Sanders. BOOK REVIEWS 47. Morisey, memo 'Radio Programs' to Sanders. 48. Barbara Moffett, memo 'Radio Programs' to Olcutt Sanders, 8 February 1957, folder: Inforn1ation Services, Audio Visual Aids, Radio & Television - Correspondence, box: General PESTANA, Carla Gardina, Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts (Cambridge: Administration, 1957: Infom1ation Services to Intemational AffairsSeminars ofWashington, AFSC. Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. xii + 197. ISBN 0-521-52504-7, Paper 49. Morisey, memo 'Radio Programs' to Sanders. 50. Sanders, memo to Morisey. £15.99. Reprint from 1991 (hardback). 51. Alvin Gaines, letter toLewis Hoskins, 4 March 1957, folder: Infom1ation Services, Audio Visual Aids, Radio & Television - Correspondence, box: General Administration, 1957: Pestana's 2004 book was exactly reprinted from the 1991 print. Only the cover Infom1ation Services to InternationalAffairs Seminars ofWashington, AFSC. summary was slightly changed. So this is not research revisited, but a response to the 52. Olcutt Sanders, 'Proposed Arrangements with Ed Randall', 2 October 1957, folder: interest which made the first publication out of print. Information Services, Audio Visual Aids, Radio & Television- Correspondence, box: General Administration, 1957: lnfomution Services to InternationalAffairs Seminars ofWashington, AFSC. The topic might look very specialised and irrelevant for our moderntimes at first, 53. 'Radio Programs Available on Tape - 1961-ListW', 'Radio Programs Available on Tape- but one should go beyond this first impression. 1961-ListX', both reel 2, SRC. Pestana compares the fate of Quakers and Baptists in colonial Massachusetts, 54. E.T. Randall, 'The Exciting Story of "A Yankee in the Heart of Dixie'", n.d.; Edwin chronologically starting with the Baptists church, whose members first came to Randall, letter to Paul Rilling, 26 September 1962, both, reel 2, SRC. Massachusetts in the first half of the seventeenth century, and going on with Friends 55. 'Report on Radio and TV Activity, October 1954-September 1955'. from 1656 (the time of their first immigration) onwards. Both groups had to suffer 56. Joe B. Long, letter to Edwin Randall, 21 August 1956, folder: Infomution Services, Radio/Television Work, box: General Administration 1956: lnfomution Service (News Releases) from the Puritans' intolerance, but, following the paths opened byRoger Williams to lntemational Affairs Seminars in Washington (Seminar Meetings - 'Next Steps in US and Anne Hutchinson, they militated for religious diversity in a very forbidding Development Programs'), AFSC. context. They challenged the Puritans' patriarchal authority. 57. 'Radio Programs Available on Tape- 1959 -List 0'; Edwin Randall, letter to Harold The author focuses on Salem Monthly Meeting and the Boston Baptist Church Fleming, 18 May 1959, both reel 2, SRC. for her comparison. She points out that the main common point between the two 58. Don Stephens, letter to Harold Fleming, 25 November 1958, reel 2, SRC. 59. Harold Fleming, letter to whom it may concern, n.d. [1964?], reel 2, SRC. groups, besides their 'boldness', was the refusal of infant baptism, although she 60. Jonas, On Doin,f? Good, pp. 86, 89. underlines the fact that Friends were more radical than the Baptists by refusing 61. Jonas, On Doing Good, pp. 156-57. exterior baptism altogether, and claiming a preference for inner baptism, as explained by Robert Barclay in his Apology. Baptists only postponed baptism until the adult age, and made it a sign of deliberate choice of the Baptist faith. She reminds the AUTHOR DETAILS reader that antipedobaptism was a burning issue in colonial Massachusetts at this time. It was the Baptists and the Quakers' honour to create the issue instead of Brian Ward is a professor of history and Chair of the Department of History at the yielding to the Puritans in a docile way. This issue linked the two groups together in University of Florida. He is the author of several books, including just My Soul the seventeenth century, but it faded in the eighteenth century with the Puritans' Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations, London: Uni reluctant toleration of antipedobaptism. versity College London; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, and Radio To have spotted an interesting role played by both Baptists and Quakers in and the Strugglefor Civil Rights in the South, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, colonial Massachusetts and made it into a topic and a title is the particular merit of 2004. Carla Gardina Pestana. It is a rich topic. Personally I bought the 1991 publication (but did not read it!) before I was asked to write a review of the 2004 one (now I Mailing address: have read it!). But I remember why I bought the 1991 one several years ago. Brian Ward, Department of History, 025 Keene-Flint Hall, University of Florida, Working on the history of Nantucket island, I had noticed that the first European Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. E-mail: [email protected] settlers on this island (1659) were either Baptists or influenced by the Anabaptists. QUAKER STUDIES 110 BOOKR.E
Thomas Macy, from Salisbury, was a Baptist who was fined for sheltering Quakers BecameDi: caught in a storm. This story is dramatically narrated by John Greenleaf Whittier in have contri his poem T11eExiles. Tristam Coffinhad shown Puritans that he disagreed with their century. law against lay preachers. Edward Starbuck had been accused by the Puritans of AnneM professing anabaptism. These founders of the Nantucket British community moved up the diffi, to Nantucket for the sake of religious liberty, to escape the stifling atmosphere cultural cliff . created by the Puritans. Then Peter Folger, who became the key figure ofNantucket will. As col after 1664, had become a Baptist in 1660. He was sympathetic to the Friends' more a diss philosophy, and was the spiritual guide of Mary Starbuck, who founded the Quaker Society's co community in 1708. As the works ofRoland Warren (Mary O?ffin Starbuck and the tender as W Early History cf Nantucket (1987]) and Robert Leach and Peter Gow (Quaker stop in his n Nantucket (1997]) show, Baptist and Quaker history are entangled in the history of the good '-' the island. And considering that Nantucket had a majority of Quakers in the strangers, an eighteenth century, Nantucket history is an important piece in the puzzle of the course, just United States' Quaker history and its relations with Europe. Woolman,' So the success of the 1991 book is not surprising to me. A comparison between Lisa Gore Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts is not just a footnote to the United transcends la States' colonial history, and deserved to be done in depth. The reprint is most an 'unmedia welcome. explores, ha· the Holy Ot Jeanne-Henriette Louis Margaret University of Orleans, France Companiow prompts so 11 entries in my in a denial c leveler, but ; which this e� Jean Sode man's World ships with }, slavery and fc response to e that'Woolm without thre; publicly the t the wealthy l North Ameri J. William ing question < modes of thm of little help Enlightenmet enlightenmen account of wl