A Peaceable Kingdom by Dutch writer, playwright and occasional social critic, Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 September 22, 2002) who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. The book is about a gentle Quaker farmer come to grips with the evils of slave holding. In the book, we also learn how it was the Quaker women who made the faith’s continuous message of justice and non-violence a successful influence on an injust, violent society.