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Quakers and the Bible in Early America - Bible Odyssey

This criticism arose out of the unique way Quakers used the Bible. For Friends, the holy book was a tool that enhanced the revelations they gained through ...

Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human ...

Black Fire - African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as ...

How the Quakers Invented America - Pendle Hill

Nationally-syndicated columnist David Yount shows how Quakers and the Society of Friends shaped the basic distinctive features of American life, from the days ...

The Quakers and Their War of Resistance - NCpedia

... N.C. Presented by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina Libraries, Chapel Hill, N.C. When the Civil War began, ...

Quakers - YouTube

Quakers, or the Society of Friends, seek a refuge in America where they can practice without persecution. Quaker William Penn finds a ...

Quakers, and American Abolition, a story

Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) were the only large religious American denomination to make it a requirement of membership to refuse to enslave ...

Quaker Activism | History Detectives - PBS

In 1776, Quakers were prohibited from owning slaves, and 14 years later they petitioned the U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery. As a primary Quaker ...

American Friends Service Committee: Home

... Quaker action for a just world. search. Our Work · Strategic Goals · Programs; Issues. Economic Justice Global Peace Migration & Immigrant Rights Prisons & ...

Native Americans and Quakers, 1791-1815

This collection includes journals, correspondence, committee minutes, and other miscellaneous original documents dated from 1791 until 1815.

How Black Quakers Influenced History - Barclay College -

In fact, four Pennsylvania Friends from Germantown wrote the earliest protest against slavery in 1688.[1] By the beginning of the American ...

The Quakers in America on JSTOR

The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of theReligious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its cultureand controversies today.

The Quakers in America by Thomas Hamm - Barnes & Noble

The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively.

American Quakers Today (review) - Project MUSE

American Quakers Today. Edited by Edwin B, Bronner. Philadelphia: Friends. World Committee, American Section and Fellowship Council. 1966. 112 pages. $3.00 ...

Who Were The Quakers? - How the Religious Society of Friends ...

... Quaker history.) While Quakerism started in England and soon spread to the American colonies, today's Religious Society of Friends is a global faith ...

Quaker Influence - Women's Rights National Historical Park (U.S. ...

Quakers believed that all men and women were equal in the eyes of God and should listen to their “inner light” or conscience to guide their spiritual ...

Some Prominent Quakers

Carey (1915 – 2002) - Associate General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, Director of Development at Haverford College and later Acting ...

What Kind of Friend Am I | Types of Quakers | Connections FWCC

"What is Quakerism? Friendly Answers to questions about American Quakers." How do Friends worship? Friends worship in congregations known as meetings or ...

About Us - Quaker Education | Friends School in PA - Penn Charter

As the world's oldest Quaker school, Quaker values are at the heart of everything we do and expect of our students including what's taught, how it's taught, ...

North American Quaker statistics 1937-2017

North American Quaker statistics 1937 – 2017 · 1937: 122,166 · 1957: 131,000 · 1967: 129,200 · 1977: 132,300 · 1987: 139,200 · 2017: 140,065.

Quaker Life in the 1700s - Ancestry

Believing that children needed to be nurtured, not punished, the Quakers revolutionized American childrearing during the 1700s. They adopted the idea that ...


Penn Quakers football

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The Penn Quakers football program is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are a Division I Football Championship Subdivision member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Guilford Quakers Football

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Philadelphia Phillies

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The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. The Phillies compete in Major League Baseball as a member of the National League East Division.