Godbeer was born in Essex, England, and grew up in Shropshire and Gloucestershire. He specializes in colonial and revolutionary America, with an emphasis on religious culture, gender studies, and the history of sexuality. from Oxford University in 1984 and his Ph.D. A master storyteller takes his readers on a moving journey they will never forget. Through one couple’s story, Godbeer opens a window on a uniquely turbulent period of American history, uncovers the domestic, social, and religious lives of Quakers in the late eighteenth century, and situates their experience in the context of transatlantic culture and trade. Amid chaos and danger, the Drinkers tried as best they could to keep their family and faith intact. Spanning a half‑century before, during, and after the war, this gripping narrative illuminates the Revolution’s darker side as patriots vilified, threatened, and in some cases killed pacifist Quakers as alleged enemies of the revolutionary cause.
Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived the unique perils that Quakers faced during that conflict. "Describe in illuminating detail the sometimes dramatic experiences of this Quaker family, living in a major colonial city during a time of rebellion and feeling incessant pressure to modify their religious convictions for the sake of the patriot cause. An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia
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