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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.
Senator Party State Term Notes Start End Length of service (days) William Windom: Republican: Minnesota: July 15, 1870: January 22, 1871: 191 (191 days) Successor qualified [1]: March 4, 1871
West Jersey and Pennsylvania were established by affluent Quaker William Penn in 1676 and 1682 respectively, with Pennsylvania as an American commonwealth run under Quaker principles. William Penn signed a peace treaty with Tammany , leader of the Delaware tribe, [ 47 ] and other treaties followed between Quakers and Native Americans. [ 32 ]
How a Former Quaker School Got a Raucous Makeover Pernille Loof. The jewelry designer Brent Neale Winston remembers the first time she paid a visit to Hay Fever, a stately three-story house in ...
The name originates from sympathy with the ideas of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), an English Quaker minister. Gurneyites came about in the 1840s during the second schism in Quakerism. [ 1 ] In general, Gurneyite Quakers follow evangelical Christian doctrines on Jesus Christ , the Atonement , and the Bible .
Quaker Oats Company, a U.S. food company; Cuáker, an Ecuadorian beverage made from oats (a loanword of "quaker") Quaker (coffee), a term used in coffee roasting to denote an unripe or poorly roasted coffee bean, the number of which is often used to judge the quality of a batch of coffee
A testimony of equality is an act, usage, or course of conduct by a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) tending to assert or promote equality of persons, arising from the Friends' belief that all people are equal in the eyes of God.
This is the oldest Quaker building in the world, still in use for worship meetings. [9] It was thrice visited by Quaker founder George Fox. [7] In December 1672, while traveling in Wales, Fox stated that his group "had a large meeting in the justice's barn, for [the justice's] house could not hold the company."