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...ar Disarmament]] are not fully pacifist. They include [[Mennonite]] and [[Quakers|Quaker]] organisations, anti-[[conscription]] organisations and those which

...ale charity work. Protestant groups especially set up soup kitchens; the [[Quakers]] were particularly well regarded in this role, although [[Methodists]] and ...For many years after the famine, families which had accepted help from the Quakers were often called 'Soupers' and regarded as traitors to the Catholic faith.

...istory]], and deals with Quakerism in Britain and Ireland after 1658. The Quakers had emerged as an organised movement between 1652 and 1654. By 1658 that m ...of stability through a restored monarchy was too strong.<ref>Reay, B. The Quakers and the English Revolution. Temple Smith. 1985. p 82</ref><ref>Moore</ref>

...as the founder of the [[Religious Society of Friends]], also known as the Quakers. Fox was raised in the [[Anglican Church]] but was dissatisfied with his s ...im to joing up with Fox. Within a short time he was seen, at least by non-Quakers, as Fox's equal in the Quaker movement<ref>Hill, C. The Experience of Defe

...svprots" /> whereas other denominations do not speak to the matter at all. Quakers, for example, don't have a collective view on the rightness or wrongness of

...ia. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quakers]], and named it for his father, adding the Latin ''sylvania'' meaning "Penn ===Quakers===

Imprisonment of [[George Fox]], founder of the [[Quakers]]

...tist]] and Methodist denominations. It had little impact on Anglicans, and Quakers. Unlike the [[Second Great Awakening]], that began about 1800 and which rea

*1660 Massachusetts: 4 Quakers hanged for heresy on Boston Common

...noncombatants helped out.<ref> Stephen W. Angell, "'Learn of the Heathen': Quakers and Indians in Southern New England, 1656-1676." ''Quaker History'' 2003 92

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...ighton Dillman Park, part of the common lands left to the community by the Quakers, and it overlooks the harbour where the first settlers built their homes. T

...ts. The Pennsylvania government was controlled by the Penn family and the Quakers, who refused to organize any military defense. In November 1747, Franklin ...oring the Act. His reputation damaged, Franklin enlisted prominent London Quakers to write on his behalf, and he began his own writing campaign in the London

...ts. The Pennsylvania government was controlled by the Penn family and the Quakers, who refused to organize any military defense. In November 1747, Franklin ...oring the Act. His reputation damaged, Franklin enlisted prominent London Quakers to write on his behalf, and he began his own writing campaign in the London

* Opper Peter Kent. "North Carolina Quakers: Reluctant Slaveholders". ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 52 (January

...Germans in Pennsylvania tried to stay out of the Revolution, just as many Quakers did, and when that failed, clung to the familiar connection rather than emb

After 1800 the Yankees (along with the Quakers) spearheaded most reform movements, including abolition, temperance, women'

...|left|100px|[[George Fox]], who founded the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], was imprisoned in Scarborough Castle in the seventeenth century.}} ...s most famous inmate was the founder of the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], [[George Fox]] (1624-1691), who was imprisoned there from April 1665 to

...ec]], the [[Sweden|Swedes]] and [[Finland|Finns]] of [[New Sweden]], the [[Quakers]] of [[Pennsylvania (U.S. state)|Pennsylvania]], the [[Puritans]] of [[New ...n who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted an influx of [[Quakers]] and other immigrants with his policies of religious liberty and freehold