SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The Clapham Sect
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The Quakers
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The Industrialists
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Religious Society of Friends, also referred to as the Quaker Movement, was founded in England in the 17th century by George Fox. He and other early Quakers, or Friends, were persecuted for their beliefs, which included the idea that the presence of God exists in every person.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Society of Friends, also known as Friends Church or Quakers, is a Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living under the “Inward Light, ” or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("the Friends") are generally united by a belief in each human’s ability to experience the light within or see “that of God in every one".
Detailed explanation-4: -Friends (Quakers) initially called themselves Publishers of Truth, Friends of Jesus, Primitive Christianity Restored or Revived. They simply saw themselves as a movement restoring original Christianity.