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  2. Quakers in North America - Wikipedia

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    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. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to ...

  3. 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Quakers - Wikipedia

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    Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God ...

  5. History of the Quakers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Catch them if you can: Eight football teams open OHSAA ... - AOL

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    He scored on runs of 29, 37, 7, 1 and 24 and caught a 48-yard toss from Brady Geibel for the sixth score. He finished with 199 rushing yards on 20 carries and 57 receiving yards on three catches.

  7. History of Protestantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1681, when Quaker leader William Penn parlayed a debt owed by Charles II to his father into a charter for the Province of Pennsylvania, many more Quakers were prepared to grasp the opportunity to live in a land where they might worship freely. By 1685, as many as 8,000 Quakers had come to Pennsylvania.

  8. Quakers in the abolition movement - Wikipedia

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    The Underground Railroad, 1893 depiction of the anti-slavery activities of a Northern Quaker named Levi Coffin by Charles T. Webber. The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. [1]

  9. Bosh's second-half tally boosts Quaker Valley past ... - AOL

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    After starting off the game slow, Quaker Valley used a strong second half to defeat Southmoreland Tuesday night at Chuck Knox Stadium.

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