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Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakersto immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them landsat Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The pair came from Barbados,where Quakers had established a center for missionary work.
The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known asQuakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in Englandduring the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority,preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarianQuaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of themost outspoken opponents of slavery in early America.
Shortly after arriving to Massachusetts, Austin and Fisher, whoseliberal teachings enraged the Puritan colonial government, were arrestedand jailed. After five years in prison, they were deported back toBarbados. In October 1656, the Massachusetts colonial government enactedtheir first ban on Quakers, and in 1658 it ordered Quakers banished fromthe colony “under penalty of death.ö Quakers found solace in RhodeIsland and other colonies, and Massachusetts’ anti-Quaker laws werelater repealed.
In the mid-18th century, John Woolman, an abolitionist Quaker, traveledthe American colonies, preaching and advancing the anti-slavery cause.He organized boycotts of products made by slave labor and wasresponsible for convincing many Quaker communities to publicly denounceslavery. Another of many important abolitionist Quakers was LucretiaMott, who worked on the Underground Railroad in the 19th century,helping lead fugitive slaves to freedom in the Northern states andCanada. In later years, Mott was a leader in the movement for women’srights.
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