family values

In home school land as a build up to the Civil War we are reading Freedom Train the Story of Harriet Tubman.  And if you never have had the privilege of reading it you should stop what you are doing and read it right now.  There are passages in that book that really get to me.  Beach is especial drawn in.  The whole damn thing is touching minus poor Beach's lack of understanding of the Quakers:

Beach: Hold on why are these people talking like they are in the bible?
Me:  That is how Quakers talk.
Beach:  I thought dad was a Quaker, he doesn't talk like that?
Me:  They don't talk like that anymore and dad wasn't completely Quaker he just attended Quaker meetings.


Beach:  Wait, are the Quakers white?
Me: Yes.
Beach:  Then why are they helping the slaves?
Me: Because remember the group of people who believed all men regardless of color or religion should be free? The ones who thought it was wrong to take the land from the Native Americans?  Those are the Quakers.  They are soft spoken, easy going people, who don't like to fight but they believe in equality and justice.
Beach: Yeah, dad is so not a Quaker.  Mom, can you read it without the thee and tho? It makes me feel like I am in church...