The Peculiar People
This book is the third of a four book series about Quaker history, so it is best read in sequence with the others.
The first two books may have been published separately, but I have them under the heading "The Peacable Kingdom", which includes "The Children of the Light" in two parts, set in Lancashire, England in 1652 and 1653 followed by "The Holy Experiment" in two parts, set in Pennsylvania in 1754 to 1755.
The Peculiar People follows the aforementioned, covering the period when the Quakers had emmigrated from England and settled in North America, and had formed associations with the indigenous Red Indian Population. The book commences in England in 1832, and covers the influence of a certain Quaker zealot, Mordecai Monk, of whom mainstream Quakers in England had had their fill. He was therefore "exported" to the USA, and we see his development into a more human person, and follow the development of the Quakers in the USA, seeing how they helped the Indian population.
Throughout the four books we follow the descendants of the original families of Quakers introduced in the first book.
See my review of the fourth book, "The Lamb's War"
