Prisoners of Congress by Norman E. Donoghue II

Prisoners of Congress Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 by Norman E. Donoghue II Pennsylvania State University Press, 288 pages, hardcover $44.95 Norman E. Donoghue II’s exceptionally readable and richly sourced Prisoners of Congress is a long-needed scholarly treatment of the case of the “Virginia Exiles”: 20 Philadelphians, nearly all Quakers, “exiled” to house arrest in Winchester,...
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