In Their Own Words: 19th Century Quakers of Lincoln, Virginia

In the 1860's the Quaker village of Goose Creek, in northern Virginia, renamed itself Lincoln in honor of the President. Most Lincoln Quakers were strongly anti-slavery. During the Civil War, these Quaker families were Unionists, though living in the Confederacy. They risked their safety and even their lives for peaceful, anti-slavery beliefs. Here are letters, memoirs and documents telling their dramatic stories, in their own words.