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The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
It was established in 1895 by a group of Quakers led by T. Hadley Lewis and Frank J. Brown. They were looking for a "promised land" to start a colony of the people who belonged to the religious denomination called Friends or Quakers. From its founding, life in Friendswood revolved around church and school.
Several of such unite Quakers who share similar religious beliefs – for example Evangelical Friends Church International unites evangelical Christian Friends; [145] Friends United Meeting unites Friends into "fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved and obeyed as Teacher and Lord;" [146] and Friends General Conference links Quakers with ...
Colonial American Quakers built meeting houses that resembled residential homes to display the building's role in the community, avoiding "churchly" ornamentation. [12] While imprisoned for his beliefs in 1665, Quaker founder George Fox had a conversation wherein he explained "church" terminology and derided steeples:
Camden, Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina Old Quaker Cemetery; Tennessee Friends Church (Maryville, Tennessee), Maryville, Blount County, NRHP-listed. Now St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Texas Live Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston Heights, Houston. Located at 1318 West 26th Street, noted for its Skyspace by artist James Turrell
James Backhouse, botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia. Daniel Wheeler was a British Quaker who made missionaries efforts in Russia, the South Pacific, and North America. John Yeardley was born in Yorkshire, England. He joined the Quakers in 1806 and started preaching in 1815.
Throughout much of the group's history the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government agencies have monitored the work of this and many other similar organizations. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Since the 1970s, criticism has also come from liberals within the Society of Friends, who charge that AFSC has drifted from its Quaker roots and ...