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Quaker Carpetbagger - J. Williams Thorne, Underground Railroad Host Turned North Carolina Politician (Paperback)
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Quaker Carpetbagger - J. Williams Thorne, Underground Railroad Host Turned North Carolina Politician (Paperback)
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J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent
the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped
fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and co-founded the
Progressive Friends Meeting near his home in Longwood. Williams and
his associates discussed vital matters of the day, from slavery to
prohibition to women's rights. These issues sometimes came to
Thorne's doorstep-he met with nationally prominent reformers, and
thwarted kidnappers seeking to enslave one of his free black
tenants. After the Civil War, Williams became a "carpetbagger,"
;moving to postwar North Carolina to pursue farming and politics.
An "infidel" Quaker (anti-Christian), he was opposed by Democrats
who sought to keep him out of the legislature on account of his
religious beliefs. Today a little-known figure in history, Williams
made his mark through his outspokenness and persistent battling for
what he believed.
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