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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."
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] Quakers were among the first white people to denounce slavery in the American colonies and Europe, and the Society of Friends became the first organization to take ...
As time went on, a few Quakers in England and the United States did enter that arena. Joseph Pease was the son of Edward Pease mentioned above. He continued and expanded his father's business. In 1832 he became the first Quaker elected to Parliament. Noah Haynes Swayne was the only Quaker to serve on the United States Supreme Court. He was an ...
In the United States, Joseph Moore taught the theory of evolution at the Quaker Earlham College as early as 1861. [68] This made him one of the first teachers to do so in the Midwest. [ 69 ] Acceptance of the theory of evolution became more widespread in Yearly Meetings who moved toward liberal Christianity in the 19th and 20th centuries. [ 70 ]
Partially thanks to the negative climate following the "Spanktown Papers" and partially because of economic factors, beginning in 1783 hundreds of Quakers left the United States and moved to Canada, with many settling in Pennfield, New Brunswick. Some of these Friends had been expelled from the faith for siding with the British during the war ...
The Colored Orphan Asylum was founded in Manhattan in 1836 by a group of Quakers [2] led by Anna Shotwell and Mary Murray. It was one of the first of its kind in the United States to take in black children whose parents had died, or were not able to take care of them. [3]
Volusia County Quakers giving away banned books aren't looking for controversy or attention. They're being faithful to the basic tenets of their faith.
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) showing William Penn trading with Native Americans, and the lion sitting down with the lambs. The "Holy Experiment" was an attempt by the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, to establish a community for themselves and other persecuted religious minorities in what would become the modern state of Pennsylvania. [1]