| Since embarking on this edition of Rebecca Jackson's writings several years ago, I have been encouraged and assisted by many people. For kind and very substantial assistance on many occasions, I would like to thank Professor David W. Wills of Amherst College. I am also indebted to Electa Arenal, Clarissa Atkinson, Dorothy Bass, Nancy F. Cott, Laurie Crumpacker, Ann Froines, Mary Anne Ferguson, Linda Henry, Helen Irvin, Sidney Kaplan, Mrs. B. C. Laurence, Rami Merlin, Marilyn Richardson, Evelyn Rosenthal, Barbara Smith, Catherine F. Smith, Thomas Swain, James S. Tinney, Paul and Diana Van Kolken, Richard E. Williams, Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr., and Melanie Zybala. |
| The staff members of research institutions and libraries have been generous with their time and expertise. My thanks are due to Denis J. LeSieur, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Mrs. Ruby C. Boyd, Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church Historical Commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kathryn L. Coyle, Delaware County Historical Society; Robert F. Looney, Free Library of Philadelphia; Bruce C. Compton, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Edwin Wolf II, Library Company of Philadelphia; Thomas Battle, Curator of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Henry Williams, Philadelphia Social History Project, University of Pennsylvania; James Cosaro and Christine Missoff, New York State Library at Albany, New York; Jean Anderson, Peter Laskovski, and Claire Wheeler, Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York; Brother Theodore E. Johnson, United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Poland Springs, Maine; James B. Casey, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio; and Mrs. Beatrice K. Taylor, Andrews Shaker Manuscript Collection, Winterthur Museum, Delaware. The hardworking and resourceful staff of my own university library, Hildegarde Van Laue, C. R. Wolf Roberts, and Frances Schlesinger, have my gratitude as well. |
| The University of Massachusetts at Boston has supported my research for this book with Faculty Development Grant funds, and an extended leave of absence from teaching. The Faculty Staff Union has also con- |
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