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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 ...
Britain Yearly Meeting is the organization of Quakers in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Several meeting houses have been listed for their architectural merit . Notable individual meeting houses include:
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.
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
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New College of Florida looks set to become a pivotal battleground over the mission of public universities as Gov. Ron DeSantis wages his war on "woke."
Senator Party State Term Notes Start End Length of service (days) William Windom: Republican: Minnesota: July 15, 1870: January 22, 1871: 191 days Successor qualified [1]: March 4, 1871