Quaker Women

Paper Summary:

The old saying, "The branch doesn't fall too far from the tree," might be one way to characterize Quakerism in England and in colonial America. This paper explains why this saying is relevant to Quaker women and the activities of women in the world beyond the sect. The paper shows why Quakers were considered, unlike the Papists and Protestants, to be of another stripe entirely, not only in their relationship to the concept of God, but in the relationships between their men and their women, and, more to the point for this examination, of their women toward the world.

Paper Outline
Introduction
The Nurturing Mother
Speaking out Unconventionally
Committing it to Paper
Rhode Island Got the Point
Back to the Mother

From the Paper:

"Some historians believe the Quaker hangings, especially of women, actually marked a turning point in New England's tolerance of different religions. The Friends had practiced gentle stoicism, which the magistrates were vicious and brutal by contrast and even other Puritans were bothered by it. By the later 1660s, the value of crushing dissent at any cost was no longer clear, either in the colonies or England. (Bonomi 29)"

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