Erica Canela is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham. She is the Reviews Editor of Quaker Studies and has co-authored a chapter on Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690 – 1830. She is also writing two books for the Brill series Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies, the first is The First Quakers, 1647 – 1660, and the other Communicating the Thoughts and Actions of the Early Quakers: Understanding and Interpreting the Swarthmore Manuscripts will be co-authored with Richard C. Allen.