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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".
The proto-evangelical Christian movement dubbed Quakerism arose in mid-17th-century England from the Legatine-Arians and other dissenting Protestant groups breaking with the established Church of England. [15] The Quakers, especially the Valiant Sixty, sought to convert others by travelling through Britain and overseas preaching the Gospel.
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 ...
The Valiant Sixty were a group of early activists and itinerant preachers in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Mainly from northern England, they spread the ideas of the Friends in the second half of the 17th century. They were also called the First Publishers of Truth. In fact they numbered more than 60.
Quaker organizations established in the 17th century ... Quakers by century ... Quakers in the abolition movement; S.
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread throughout North America, Central America, Africa, and Australia.
Seekers anticipated aspects of Quakerism and a significant number of them became Quakers [4] and many remaining Seekers attended the funeral of George Fox. A contemporary and unsympathetic author, Richard Baxter , claimed that they had merged with the "Vanists" or followers of Henry Vane the Younger .
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