The first known Quakers in North America arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1656 via Barbados, and were soon joined by other Quaker preachers who converted many colonists to …

• Quakers in England had been converted to an evangelical Christianity, and traveled to America to confront American Friends who believed that the “Inner Light” must be honored above the …

May 19, 2017 · Quakers rejected elaborate religious ceremonies, didn’t have official clergy and believed in spiritual equality for men and women. Quaker missionaries first arrived in America …

Ann Austin and Mary Fisher were the first recorded Quakers to set foot in America, which was called the New World. They had traveled from England to Barbados and then went on to settle …

The story of American Quakerism begins, as do the stories of many American faiths, on the other side of the Atlantic. The first Friends were English men and women, visionaries caught up in …

Jul 31, 2023 · Quakers immigrated to the American colonies in part because of the persecution they faced in England. When they arrived in Massachusetts, they discovered that the Puritans, …

Clearly, times have changed. Nowadays, the vast majority of Quakers live in places like East Africa and Latin America—not in North America—and those communities are no longer seen …

May 18, 2020 · The Quaker leadership of Pennsylvania in the First Continental Congress was divided between rivals Joseph Galloway and John Dickinson. Though both men were …

Around the time of the American Revolutionary War, some American Quakers split from the main Society of Friends over issues such as support for the war, forming groups such as the Free …

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