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British Quakers consider reparation for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade Edit descriptionwww.youtube.com On 31st May 2023, Friends’ House issued a Press Release entitled ‘Quakers to make reparation for slave trade and colonialism’. The story was covered by a number of British news outlets. Quakers to make reparation for slave trade and colonialism Quakers have agreed they will make practical reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism and economic…www.quaker.org.uk

First published for the 2020 yearly Mt Pleasant historical tour featuring a grave behind Emerson Meetinghouse. Samaria (Robinson) Clark was a conductor of the Underground Railroad in Emerson, Jefferson County, near Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. …

In the twentieth and final chapter The True Christian’s Faith & Experience Briefly Declared, early Friend William Shewen offers advice and counsel to those, like me, who have recently been turned from the ignorance of God to His light within and from the power of the world to the power…

If a researcher finds that an ancestor was disowned, but doesn’t know why, that information can be found in the handwritten minutes of business meetings. This is how to search the handwritten “U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681 to 1935” on Ancestry.com’s database. On their website, go to the Search drop-down…

Sunday 2nd October 2022 — Friends (Quakers) are not known for designating any day more special than another. Certainly, in the Meetings I know there is no difference in worship whether it is Christmas, Easter or any other religious festival. So in a sense having a World Quaker Day goes against that tradition. Perhaps Friends…

The American Revolution was heavily influenced by European Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire. However, European intellectuals have long looked to America too for inspiration. And when they did so, it neither the conformist culture of the Puritan pilgrims, nor the aristocratic southern slave-holding culture was the source of inspiration, but the…

In this post, I intend to outline the reason I am renaming this blog [originally called A Quiet Quaker] and, similarly, not referring to myself as a ‘Quaker’ to most people. Those familiar with the history of Quakerism will find no surprises or new insights here. Those unfamiliar with that…

I was working on ‘nominations’ on Saturday morning and part of Sunday. In Britain, Quaker communities do not have ordained clergy, so each year we have to work out who should do what. The process for doing it is overseen by the ‘Nomination committee’. …