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According to Fox's autobiography, Bennet "was the first that called us Quakers, because I bade them tremble at the word of the Lord". [29]: 125 It is thought that Fox was referring to Isaiah 66:2 or Ezra 9:4. Thus the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and used by some Quakers. [33]
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
A small breakaway group, the Religious Society of Free Quakers, originally called "The Religious Society of Friends, by some styled the Free Quakers", was established on February 20, 1781 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dorothy Ripley was a British Quaker that spent her life traveling in and between Britain and the United States of America. She was especially involved in ministering to Native Americans, prisoners, and African slaves. Theophilus Waldmeier was Swiss-born. He had a deeply religious upbringing and eventually joined the Quakers.
James and Jane Wardley and others broke off from the Quakers in 1747 [5]: 20 [6]: 105 at a time when the Quakers were weaning themselves away from frenetic spiritual expression. [7] The Wardleys formed the Wardley Society, which was also known as the "Shaking Quakers". [8] Future leader Ann Lee and her parents were early members of the sect.
Testimony to integrity and truth refers to the way many members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) testify or bear witness to their belief that one should live a life that is true to God, true to oneself, and true to others. To Friends, the concept of integrity includes personal wholeness and consistency as well as honesty and fair ...
Quaker Life is a central department of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, [1] the national organisation of Quakers in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Its work is to develop the spiritual life of Quakers in Britain, and the running of Quaker Meetings within Britain.
The special exemption for Quakers has continued in subsequent Marriage Acts in England and Wales up to and including the Marriage Act 1949, which allows "marriage in according to the usages of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers". Quakers and Jews were exempt from the restrictions within the Marriage Act 1949 from the requirements ...