By Thomas Hamm
The Quakers in the United States is a multifaceted historical past of the spiritual Society of pals and a desirable examine of its tradition and controversies at the present time. energetic vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, pals common convention, and pals United conferences light up simple Quaker theology and mirror the group's range whereas additionally highlighting the elemental team spirit in the faith. Quaker tradition features a wealthy culture of perform at the same time believers proceed to discuss no matter if Quakerism is unavoidably Christian, the place non secular authority may still stay, how one transmits religion to kids, and the way gender and sexuality form non secular trust and behaviour. Praised for its wealthy perception and wide-ranging viewpoint, The Quakers in the US is a penetrating account of an influential, shiny, and infrequently misunderstood spiritual sect. (Oct-Dec 2004)
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Even then the handful of black Quakers often found themselves segregated. But Friends led in organizing antislavery societies, petitioning legislatures to abolish slavery, and rescuing freed blacks who had been kidnapped and forced back into slavery. 57 Friends and the American Revolution The debates leading up to independence, and the war years from 1775 to 1783, were difficult times for American Quakers. Most were deeply skeptical about revolution; many were outspoken in loyalty to the Crown. A complex of factors produced this outlook.
The great influx of Quaker migration to North America, however, would come after 1680, and as the fruit of developments in England. Change, 1660–1689 Great Britain underwent another revolution in 1660, with the overthrow of the Commonwealth government and the restoration of the monarchy under King Charles II. This political upheaval had profound effects on Friends. The Restoration Parliament was full of vengeful royalists who associated religious dissent with political subversion. They had no love for Quakers.
Thus Hicks adamantly rejected any suggestion that the Bible was the sole authority for Christians. 9 Many Friends found these views to be sound, traditional Quakerism. But Hicks horrified others, and by the early 1820s his critics, especially in Philadelphia, the intellectual and spiritual center of American Quakerism, were so unhappy that they sought to silence the Long Island minister. 10 Hicks’s opponents eventually became known as Orthodox Friends. Hicks’s backers had no trouble finding the source of their opposition: the Orthodox were really crypto-Episcopalians or Presbyterians, overly influenced by their ties to these denominations, usually in the pursuit of economic or political power.
