about 180,000 members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, in Africa. African Friends make up around 49% of Friends internationally, the largest...
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9:4. Thus the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and used by some Quakers. Quakers also described themselves...
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founded by William Penn in 1682, as a safe place for Quakers to live and practice their faith. Quakers have been a significant part of the movements for...
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formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted Quakers. Mary Fisher and Ann Austin are the first known Quakers to set foot in the New World. They...
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traditional Quaker practices such as plain dress, along with Evangelical Friends, view homosexual acts as sinful. 49% of Quakers live in Africa, and though...
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Friends United Meeting (category Quaker organizations established in the 20th century)
of Friends (Quakers) in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Its home pages states that it is "a collection of Christ-centered Quakers, embracing...
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Christianity in Africa arrived in Africa in the 1st century AD, and in the 21st century the majority of Africans are Christians. Several African Christians...
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as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia article. The first part consists of individuals known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some point in their...
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Britain Yearly Meeting (redirect from Quakers in Britain)
Gathering" are usually the names given to the annual gathering of British Quakers. Quakers in Britain is the name the organisation is commonly known by. Britain...
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Wilmington College (Ohio) (redirect from Wilmington Quakers)
Wilmington College is a private college in Wilmington, Ohio. It was established by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1870 and is accredited by the Higher...
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known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. Quakers were among...
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Representative Office of Quaker Chemical B.V., Binol AB (Sweden) and Quaker Chemical South Africa (Pty.) Limited. Quaker's locations in North America include...
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Liberia (redirect from LIBERIA, West Africa)
made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders. Quakers believed black people would face better chances for freedom in Africa than in the U.S. While slaveholders...
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Earlham College (redirect from Earlham Quakers)
college in Richmond, Indiana. The college was established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has a strong focus on Quaker values...
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organizations or charities founded by Quakers. Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses...
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Kaffir (racial term) (redirect from Kaffir (historical usage in southern Africa))
exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa. In Arabic, the word kāfir ("unbeliever")...
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slavery. The Quakers had been active. A new group was the Sons of Africa, made up of Africans who had been freed from slavery and were living in London, such...
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The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies...
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of black people were limited in America, and he became interested in African colonization." With the help of Quakers in Philadelphia, he was able to transport...
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commonly called Quakers". Quakers and Jews were exempt from the restrictions within the Marriage Act 1949 from the requirements to marry in certain approved...
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Qubilah Shabazz (category African-American Quakers)
Qubilah Shabazz attended a Quaker-run summer camp called "Farm and Wilderness" in Vermont. At age 11, she became a Quaker, converting from Islam. With...
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George Fox (category English Quakers)
Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and war. He rebelled...
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Aunt Jemima (category Quaker Oats Company brands)
2014. "Aunt Jemima—Our History". Quaker Oats. Archived from the original on August 23, 2007. "Caricatures of African Americans: Mammy". Regnery Publishing...
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Kenya (redirect from Kenya-Africa)
Church in Kenya, and the Reformed Church of East Africa. Orthodox Christianity has 621,200 adherents. Kenya has by far the highest number of Quakers of any...
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Paul Cuffe (category 18th-century Quakers)
captured as a child in West Africa and sold into slavery in Newport about 1720. In the mid-1740s, his father was manumitted by his Quaker owner, John Slocum...
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Jean Toomer (category African-American Quakers)
as Quakers) and retired from public life. His papers are held by the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University. Born Nathan Pinchback Toomer in Washington...
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Pennsylvania (redirect from The Quaker State)
long period of friendly relations between the Quakers and the Indians. Additional treaties between Quakers and other tribes followed. The treaty of William...
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numerous Quaker organisations were created to bring Quakers across Europe together. In 1920, the first Worldwide Conference of Quakers was held in London...
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Gurneyite (category History of Quakerism)
or Quakers. The name originates from sympathy with the ideas of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), an English Quaker minister. Gurneyites came about in the...
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Grace Douglass (category African-American Quakers)
1842) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Her family was one of the first prominent free black families in the United States...
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