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George Washington Walker was an English-born Quaker. He traveled and made missionary efforts with James Blackhouse in Australia, Mauritius, and South Africa; 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.
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
Quakerism in the United States by state (24 C) A. ... 607 P) M. Quaker meeting houses in the United States (21 C) O. Quaker organizations based in the United States ...
The couple made an offer and moved in by June 2020, finding comfort in the convivial spirit of the place, which had previously served as an inn and a Quaker school.
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.
Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company; Cuáker, an Ecuadorian beverage made from oats (a loanword of "quaker") Quaker (coffee), a term used in coffee roasting to denote an unripe or poorly roasted coffee bean, the number of which is often used to judge the quality of a batch of coffee
Additionally, you can contact Quaker Consumer Relations Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CST at 1-800-492-9322 or visit www.quakergranolarecall.com for additional information or ...
West Jersey and Pennsylvania were established by affluent Quaker William Penn in 1676 and 1682 respectively, with Pennsylvania as an American commonwealth run under Quaker principles. William Penn signed a peace treaty with Tammany , leader of the Delaware tribe, [ 47 ] and other treaties followed between Quakers and Native Americans. [ 32 ]