Quaker History - period ended 3.15.2006

Quaker History/Quaint///Planning Vacation? Group Lists Unusual Destinations/NBC4.TV/Los Angeles/CA/USA/8-Mar-06/AP/... _West Chester, Pa., an old Quaker village with brick sidewalks and period architecture. This year's destinations were chosen from 93 nominated in 39 states. ...

44 Total Instances in US, UK, and World

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Suffragette's ideals formed in Adams/North Adams Transcript/North Adams/MA/USA/13-Mar-06//... They also founded the local Quaker Meeting House.". ... In Quaker society, women were equal to men and many spoke openly at the weekly meetings. ...

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Early women activists are heroes to many/Battle Creek Enquirer/Battle Creek/MI/USA/12-Mar-06//Facts: Anthony was brought up in a Quaker family with activist traditions. After teaching for 15 years, she became active in temperance. ...

Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Humanitarian Assistance/YOUR VIEW: In honor of Peter Francisco Day/SouthCoastToday.com/Portland/ME/USA/14-Mar-06//... At the battle of Guilford Courthouse, Francisco was severely wounded and left for dead on the battlefield, but was later rescued by a Quaker who took him to ...


Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Greene, Nathanael/British won battle, American general helped win war/Spartanburg Herald Journal/Spartanburg/SC/USA/15-Mar-06//... The first shots were fired as the British marched toward the courthouse, detained briefly by Patriots during a skirmish at the nearby Quaker community of New ...

Quaker History/Union Bible College/Plans grow for daylong Historic Westfield event/Noblesville Ledger/Noblesville/IN/USA/14-Mar-06//... 1834-63. Discussions about Quaker history and the bible college, which has buildings dating back to 1861, will be offered. Union ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Women//Around Town/Braintree Forum/Braintree/MA/USA/8-Mar-06//... The play tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Quaker women who helped her bring slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. ...

Quaker History/Strict/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Susan B. Anthony's mark still evident a century later/Outer Banks Sentinel/Outer Banks/NC/USA/11-Mar-06//... She was born into a strict Quaker family, and Quakers accorded women more freedom and equality than other Christian denominations at the time. ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition//Rhode Island and the Slave Trade: Strangers in a Strange Land .../Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/14-Mar-06//... That same year, Pastor Hopkins told a Providence Quaker that Newport "is the most guilty respecting the slave trade, of any on the continent." The town, he said ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith//Washington set tone for religious freedom/Community Press/Louisville/KY/USA/2-Mar-06//... In Massachusetts at the time, as well as in Great Britain, it was a capital offense to be a Quaker. This is not the most pleasant ...

Quaker History/Prim///Brokeback to the Future/National Review Online/New York/NY/USA/6-Mar-06//... Later, in the cool quiet of the livery stable, Frank makes the marshal forget his prim new Quaker bride and demonstrates what he learned “while in State ...
Quaker History/Furniture/Goddard, John/Like Grandfather, Like Grandson: Woodworker passing trade on to .../Shore Publishing/New London/CT/USA/10-Mar-06//... Ronald Patton, started but never finished two Honduras mahogany secretaries, reproductions of those built in the 1760s by John Goddard, a Quaker family of ...

Quaker History/Furniture///The Auction Highlights of Americana Week/Maine Antique Digest/Portland/ME/USA/13-Mar-06//... The six Quaker plain yoke-back side chairs with rush seats and scalloped skirts, not formal chairs but the sort made in Philadelphia by William Savery for use ...

Quaker History/Equality/Temperance/Abolition/Making a place for women in medicine/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/Rochester/NY/USA/13-Mar-06//... of activist women, starting in the early 1800s: the charitable activities of upper-class women in what was Rochesterville; the progressive Quaker spirit of ...

Quaker History/Equality///Archivist: Franklin proposed radical changes to school/Daily Pennsylvanian/Harrisburg/PA/USA/2-Mar-06//... Lloyd said that Franklin's proposal largely failed, reflecting a deep ideological divide between conservative religious authorities and Quaker egalitarianism. ...

Quaker History/Civil Rights//Americans are heirs to fundamental Quaker beliefs/Scripps Howard News Service/Washington/DC/USA/12-Mar-06//... It was no coincidence that the American Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Quaker Philadelphia, nor that our young nation's Bill of Rights was ...

Quaker History/Business///Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: Chocolate, now and throughout .../Santa Cruz Sentinel/Santa Cruz/CA/USA/15-Mar-06//... Surprisingly, the chocolate production in the US was influenced in part by Quaker religious practices Cadbury and by the Mennonites Hershey. ...

Quaker History/Arts///Tapestry has drawn thousands of visitors/Norfolk Eastern Daily Press/Norfolk/England/UK/6-Mar-06//06 March 2006 09:13 More than 8000 people have visited Norwich Cathedral to see the Quaker Tapestry Roadshow recounting 350 years of history. ...
Quaker History/Abolition/Taylor, Stewart/Symbolic quilt showcased in Uxbridge/Durham region news/Durham/Ontario/Canada/7-Mar-06//... journeys. The book is dedicated to Stewart Taylor, born in Uxbridge. "He was a Quaker that took up arms in the fight against slavery. He ...
Quaker History/Abolition/Robinson, Rowland T./BLACK MENAGERIE: LIBERAL NEW YORKERS HELPED SLAVES/Niagarafallsreporter.com/Niagra Falls/NY/USA/6-Mar-06//... began cropping up around the state offering open support for the Underground Railroad's chief engineers, like Harriet Tubman and radical Quaker Rowland T ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Raised-a-Quaker/Confronting Complicity/Hartford Advocate/Hartford/CT/USA/2-Mar-06//... slavery was legal in the state. Prudence Crandall, a white woman raised Quaker, was hardly prudent. She had the temerity, in 1832 ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Indiana//Restoring a lost heritage/Louisville Courier-Journal/Louisville/KY/USA/5-Mar-06//... For sure, many Hoosiers of the time favored slavery, but Indiana also had a racially tolerant and neighborly Quaker population. ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Hicks, Elias/Remembering the African-Americans who Built This City/Brooklyn Downtown STAR/Brooklyn/NY/USA/8-Mar-06//... issue.". Hicks was a Quaker, as were many prominent Flushing abolitionists, but, to be frank, most of them were late to the cause. ...
Quaker History/Abolition/Benezet, Anthony/UMaine grad sheds light on antislavery sermon/MaineToday.com/Portland/ME/USA/5-Mar-06//... Two of them document that a Philadelphia Quaker, Anthony Benezet, started a school for black children in his own home in the 1750s and for 25 years produced ...