What does this mean???

Question

I am currently studying slavery at our school and the Underground Railroad. The phrase "Quaker Abolitionist" has come up a few times. I know what an Abolitionist is- someone who is against slavery. But can anyone tell me what Quaker means related to an Abolitionist??? Thank you so much if you can help me.

Answer 1

The term "Quaker" refers to a member of the Religious Society of Friends, which is the proper name of the sect. They believe in peaceful means of protest and The Society of Friends took its name from the New Testament gospel of John, which says, "You are my friends if you do whatever I command." (John 15:12-15). The original Quakers called themselves "Friends of Truth" after this verse.
They were against slavery and usually you could find a house that would take in the slaves who had run away where they were.

Answer 2

Quaker abolitionists wanted to end slave trading among fellow Quakers because the barbarity of the buying and selling of slaves was more obvious than that of the institution of slavery as a whole

Answer 3

In both Britain and the United States, Quakers were among the first to denounce slavery in the 18th century. This was due to the efforts of Quaker abolitionist leaders such as John Woolman. Born in New Jersey in 1720, Woolman was a tailor and shopkeeper. Continual encounters with slavery in his own neighborhood—notably an incident in which his employer asked him to write out a bill of sale for a slave—convinced him that he could not, in good conscience, continue to have anything more to do with slavery. In 1756, the year he began his journal, he gave up most of his business to devote himself to anti-slavery. This selection from Woolman’s journal, published in 1774 after his death, records a trip in May 1757, through Maryland and Virginia, to spread his anti-slavery message among fellow Quakers.

Answer 4

a Quaker Abolitionist was a Quaker that was an abolitionist

the Quakers, who you know were pacifists and believed slavery was wrong, were a big part of the abolitionist movement

Answer 5

The first whites to denounce slavery in Europe and the European colonies were members of the Society of Friends—commonly known as Quakers.

Answer 6

Abolitionist: Someone who campaigned against slavery during the 18th and 19th centuries

Answer 7

I think that it is like a quaker who helped a slave out by feeding, houseing, and protecting him. They were not allowed to. I am taking a shot in the dark. It was a long time ago when we learnd that. Try googling it.

Answer 8

The Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers (so dubbed derisively by a seventeenth‐ century judge who said they quaked before the power of the Lord), has opposed war and violence from its inception, and has sought instead to do away with the causes of war and alleviate the suffering it causes.

Answer 9

i read that book :D it was very good, and a quaker is just a "farmer" per say, one that helped the slaves, but they were refered to as quakers because that is what they called farming men in those old days, hope this helped you out alittle bit and enjoy the rest of the book

Answer 10

Quaker is a religious sect.