He was a militant vegetarian, a feminist, an abolitionist and opposed to the death penalty - a combination of values that put him centuries ahead of his contemporaries. For the hunchbacked Quaker ...

Quakers became active in moral reform during the 1750s, moving first to free their own slaves and then seeking to persuade other Americans of the need for abolition. After the Revolution ...

As early as 1688, four German Quakers in Germantown near Philadelphia protested slavery in a resolution that condemned the "traffic of Men-body." By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale ...

The Quakers were the first religious group to ally themselves to the abolitionist cause, and played a role in securing the freedom of Frederick Douglass. Some among them believed that buying an ...

Born in 1821, Lewis benefitted from an egalitarian Quaker upbringing ... Uncle Bartholomew was an active abolitionist, and the family formed a local auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society.