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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Shakers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Movement for a New Society - Wikipedia

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    The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a U.S.-based network of social activist collectives, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. According to a description from the MNS publication, Building Social Change Communities (1979),

  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. Channel 5 (web series) - Wikipedia

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    Channel 5 (also known as "Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan" on YouTube) is an American digital media company and web channel, billed as a "digital journalism experience." [ 2 ] The show is a spinoff of the group's previous project, All Gas No Brakes , which was itself based on the book of the same name.

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