2008年7月2日 · So when Quakers showed up in Boston in the 1650s, it’s no surprise they were persecuted. Puritan Congregationalism was the official—and only—religion of New England. …

The Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) demanded that they be permitted to practice their own religion in Puritan Boston, without the threat of persecution, death or banishment.

Thirty-four years later, a special Puritan court would execute 20 male and female witches, many with Quaker lies, in an unprecedented superstitious frenzy. The Bay Colony Puritans …

The Quakers (or Religious Society of Friends) formed in England in 1652 around a charismatic leader, George Fox (1624-1691). Many scholars today consider Quakers as radical Puritans, …

2022年11月29日 · Quakers were punished harshly by the Puritans, who saw them as a serious threat to their authority. Severe sentences were decreed for that “cursed set of heretics” called …

2018年5月19日 · The Puritans turned abusing Quakers into a weirdly sexual display. They would strip them naked down to the waist and parade them through the town, whipping their backs …

The struggle between orthodox puritans and the early Quakers in Massachusetts reveals the tension between individual liberties and the state’s mandate to govern; between the right to …

After arriving in Long Island in 1657, some Quakers were fined, jailed, and banished by the Dutch, who (like Puritan New Englanders) were outraged by Quaker women proselytizing. In this …

2014年6月21日 · Persecution of Quakers. The Puritans responded harshly to the Quaker troublemakers, imposing severe punishments. They cut off Quaker ears, bored through …

2021年5月4日 · In 17th century Salem, the chosen church of the Puritans was the only lawful one – and to absent oneself from the mandated meetings meant fines, whippings, mutilation, …