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  2. Quakers - Wikipedia

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    Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God ...

  3. History of the Quakers - Wikipedia

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    The Religious Society of Friends began as a proto-evangelical Christian movement in England in the mid-17th century in Ulverston. [1] [2] Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord". While the movement initially grew out of Christian ideals, not all modern Quakers identify as Christian.

  4. Quakers in the abolition movement - Wikipedia

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    The Underground Railroad, 1893 depiction of the anti-slavery activities of a Northern Quaker named Levi Coffin by Charles T. Webber. The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. [1]

  5. Quakers in North America - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Quakers in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Early in the conflict's history, Quakers participated in the revolutionary movement through nonviolent actions such as embargoes and other economic protests. However, the outbreak of war created an ideological divide among the group, as most Quakers remained true to their pacifist beliefs and refused to support any military actions ...

  7. Isaac Penington (Quaker) - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Penington (1616–1679) was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. He wrote about the Quaker movement and was an influential promoter and defender of it.

  8. Category:History of Quakerism - Wikipedia

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    Quakers in the abolition movement; S. Seneca Falls Convention; Quakerism in Sichuan; Social Service: Its Place in the Society of Friends; Society for Effecting the ...

  9. 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery - Wikipedia

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    The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...