Society of Friends

Her religious witness had, owing to the persecution of Quakers , its political side. She was clearly a persuasive speaker, as shown by her success with the Mayors of Basingstoke and of Marlborough. She also...

A conference on slavery organized by KEI for the Society of Friends ' Slavery and Protection of Native Races Committee was held at Friends' House , London.

In the same year that she became a QuakerHK gave up using produce grown by slaves: that is, she joined the sugar boycott which was gathering strength among women.

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.

As persecution against dissenters increased, AD took on the project of combating this trend in print. For some years at the turn of the century (when she already thought of herself as an old woman)...

HK wrote in her diary: Are not Friends peculiarly called upon to act as school missionaries?—that is to work for African education.

They got up at 3 a.m. and walked three miles to Bonsall, to canvass local gentlemen against this sporting event. They bought the bull after failing to persuade the gentlemen. Two years later they went...

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

DW spent a large part of the years 1662-1663 in various London prisons for the offence of Quaker preaching, which the Act of Uniformity of May 1662 had pronounced to be illegal.

During this same winter she was urging fellow-Quakers to strike an informal committee that could publicise her concerns about Africa: the result was a Committee for African Instruction .

ES attended the second congress of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace , which was held at Zurich on 12-17 May 1919 (and which gave the organization its lasting name of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.

HB was arrested again at a Quaker meeting, probably following the Act of Uniformity.

Meanwhile the attitude of the Puritan government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardened against the Society of Friends , so that in opting for serious Quakerism BB would be joining a persecuted minority.

In Boston the two women at once fell under suspicion of being witches. They were searched for bodily marks of witchcraft (even betwixt their toes, and amongst their hair), then thrown into jail. Their...