quakers in English

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a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles. Central to the Quakers' belief is the doctrine of the “Inner Light,” or sense of Christ's direct working in the soul. This has led them to reject both formal ministry and all set forms of worship.
Some of these groups, including the Baptists, Quakers , and Mennonites, developed their own forms of worship.
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1. Not surprisingly, Quakers freed their slaves in the 1700s and many activists in the Abolitionist and women’s rights movements were Quakers

2. The Quakers were especially active in this policy on reservations.

3. It is understood to cover pacifists (such as Quakers) where the objection to military action is absolute.

4. BARROWS Domiciled Quakers upon conviction, refusing to Apostatize, to be banished, under pain of death on return

5. This radical move encouraged some American Quakers to move to Costa Rica, where they established a cheese factory, in Santa Elena.

6. 1 OF 2 EGERTON RYERSON And being convicted to be of the sect of the Quakers, shall be sentenced to Banishment, on pain of death

7. It was a movement spearheaded by the Quakers, and it only became popular when Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" became a bestseller.

8. Harrison's attempts to allow slavery in the Indiana Territory caused a significant opposition from the Quakers who had settled in the eastern part of the territory.

9. On 22 May 1787, the first meeting of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade took place, bringing like-minded British Quakers and Anglicans together in the same organisation for the first time.

10. As early as 1784, both Quakers and Methodists were advising their members to abstain from all hard liquor and to avoid participation in its sale and manufacture.12 A more aggressive temperance movement took hold among the churches in the early decades of the 19th century.

11. Henry Macy’s Cellaret probably reflect the influence of eastern North Carolina Quakers and their family relations who migrated to the region in the 1780s and 90s. This group included, most importantly, Frederick Fentress (1791-1874), whose family was originally from Pasquotank County but settled in northern Randolph County around 1790.