Show quaker founder george fox was nineteen when he felt the call to preach which resulted in his arrest for disturbing the peace and his establishment ot of the society ot of friends quakers priests lawyers and soldiers were all obnoxious to him says a biographer ogra pher consequently every type of persecution was practiced on the se sect ct in ill england and the american colonies for a long time it was a worse crime to be a quaker than a thiet thief william penn was jailed because he be was a quaker this induced him to come to america numbers of quaker men were put to death in massachusetts in new hampshire quaker women were stripped and whipped from one town to another tor for quakers were the first to acknowledge knowledge the equality of men and women in religion and allow women to reach |