simultaneously one should speak truth to the dis-empowered and dis-enfranchised to rise up against those who have power as a check to that power.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Martha S. Jones</span> in An Unexpected Connection - by Martha S. Jones (<time class='dt-published'>04/14/2022 09:17:10</time>)</cite></small>

1. For more on Francis T. King’s influence at Guilford College, see Damon D. Hickey, “Pioneers of the New South: The Baltimore Association and North Carolina Friends in Reconstruction,” Quaker History 74, no. 1 (Spring 1975): 1-17.

Francis King was a Quaker and a business associate to Johns Hopkins and personally chosen by Hopkins to serve as a founding trustee of the university.

King headed headed the Baltimore Association to Advise and Assist Friends in the Southern States. He influenced Guilford College to name a building there Archdale Hall after John Archdale, a 17th century colonial governor of the Carolinas and a Quaker who oversaw the enactment of their early and exceedingly harsh slave codes.

Her most famous work was literally called Women's Speaking Justified which she wrote in prison for using her home as a meeting place for Quakers.