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These Friends considered the Revolution to be a fight for a divinely-ordained new system of government that would change the world for the better. [16] The Free Quakers were expelled for violating the Peace Testimony, but after the Revolution founded a short-lived sect of Quakerism based on those principles.
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
While the Quiet Revolution is often associated with the efforts of the Liberal Party of Quebec's government led by Jean Lesage (elected in 1960) and, to some extent, Robert Bourassa (elected in 1970 after Daniel Johnson of the Union Nationale in 1966), its profound impact has influenced the policies of most provincial governments since the ...
Many of its early members were prominent Quakers involved in the American Revolution before the society was established. Notable Free Quakers at the early meetings included Samuel Wetherill , who served as clerk and preacher; Timothy Matlack and his brother White Matlack ; William Crispin ; Colonel Clement Biddle and his brother Owen Biddle ...
The Beginnings of Quakerism (1912); revised by Henry J. Cadbury (1955) online edition Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine; Braithwaite, William C. Second Period of Quakerism (1919); revised by Henry Cadbury (1961), covers 1660 to 1720s in Britain; Brock, Peter. Pioneers of the Peaceable Kingdom (1968), on Peace Testimony from the 1650s ...
Early Quakerism tolerated boisterous behaviour that challenged conventional etiquette, but by 1700, its adherents no longer supported disruptive and unruly behaviour. [51] During the 18th century, Quakers entered the Quietist period in the history of their church, becoming more inward-looking spiritually and less active in converting others.
Scott moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and became a recognized traveling minister, sponsored in his work by Brown. [2] He traveled widely from Vermont to Georgia in his ministry and visited the Nicholite communities, the 'New Quakers', in Maryland and North Carolina in 1789 and 1790.
The Public Universal Friend [a] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. . After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pro