Quakers in the American Revolution

Quakers in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

The American Revolution created a difficult situation for many of these Friends, informally known as "Quakers," as their nonviolent religious tenets often ...

Quakers Battle of Guilford Courthouse (U.S. National Park Service)

Quakers represent a key third group in the American Revolution that chose political neutrality, and were affected by the war nevertheless.

An Introduction to the Quaker Influence During America's Founding

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the American colonies had coexisted under the umbrella rule of the British government.

Revolutionary PHL: Exiled from Philadelphia: Quakers during the ...

In September 1777, 20 Quaker men were imprisoned for refusing to sign oaths of loyalty to the revolutionary government. They were transported ...

Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution

Despite their history of pacifism, Philadelphia Quakers were deeply entangled in the American Revolution. When a small number of disowned Friends came ...

The Complexity of Patriotism and Quaker Loyalism in One ...

While Quakers at first supported patriotic resistance to the British, they soon grew uncomfortable with the radical nature of the movement. Quakers in ...

Quakers during the Revolution: the Quiet in the Land

In spite of that, there were some Quakers who took sides. One of the most famous was Nathanael Greene. He was a Quaker from Rhode Island. Before ...

The Quakers and the American Revolution (review)

The Quakers and the American Revolution. By Arthur J. Mekeel. York,. Eng.: Sessions, 1996. ? + 420 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliog-.

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778

In 1777, Congress labeled a group of Philadelphia Quakers who refused to help defend the city against the imminent invasion by British ...

New Jersey's Quakers and the American Revolution - NJ.gov

How did this religious conviction shape the. Quakers' understanding of revolutionary principles? Significance: This lesson examines the beliefs and experiences ...

A Look at the Treatment of Philadelphia Quakers during the ...

The traditional history lesson regarding the American Revolution recounts the stories of daring Patriots, men like Paul Revere who risked.

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia's Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778 ...

In 1777, Congress labeled Quakers who would not take up arms in support of the War of Independence as “the most Dangerous Enemies America knows” and ordered ...

The Relation of the Quakers to the American Revolution

John Fothergill to James Pemberton, March 17, 1775, Pemberton. Papers (Historical Society of Pennsylvania), XXXIV, 173. Page 4. QUAKERS AND THE AMERICAN ...

Quakers' painful choice during the American Revolution

Paine, a fallen Quaker himself, was incensed by the Friends' refusal to fight in the War for American Independence because of a religious ...

North Carolina Quakers in the Era of the American Revolution

25Jones, Quakers in the American Colonies, 339. 26Wil l iam T. Lefler and Al bert Ray Newsome, North Carol ina : The. Hi story of a Southern State (Chapel Hil ...

Religion and the American Revolution - The Library of Congress

The Revolution split some denominations, notably the Church of England, whose ministers were bound by oath to support the King, and the Quakers, who were ...

L'Amérique et le France - Quaker Women in the American Revolution

As a religious Quaker, she endeavored to be neutral and yet, when the war began her natural inclination, like her co-religionists, was to be pro-British. She ...

The Quaker Exiles: “The Cause of Every Inhabitant” - Journals

James briefly mentioned the Exiles twice in his work on Quakers, first in a 1962 article titled “The. Impact of the American Revolution on Quakers' Ideas about ...

Why did most Quakers not take sides during the American Revolution?

Quaker communities refused to raise support for militias. Some Quakers refused to accept the Revolutionary War currency called "continentals" ...

Free Quaker Meeting House (U.S. National Park Service)

"Free" Quakers supported the Revolution, while the majority contended that there was no justifiable reason for going to war. Eventually disowned ...