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Historical Highway MarkersEarly Quakers in RichmondSA-46-a
Near this site a meetinghouse was built in 1797 to1798 by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Called Quakers, the earliest had arrived in Virginia from England in 1655. The building was the second house of worship in Richmond after St. John's Church. Richmond Quakers advocated religious freedom, worked to make the prison system more humane and, as pacifists, usually refused to bear arms. They also joined with the Virginia Society of Friends to pressure the General Assembly for passage of the Manumission Act of 1782. Because they opposed slavery, many Quakers migrated west early in the 19th century.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Bodman, James Martyn. The Building Career of george Winston (1759-1826). Master’s thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2003. Bell, James Pinkney. Our Quaker Friends of Ye Olden Time (Lynchburg, VA, 1905). Cartland, Fernando. Southern Heroes: The Friends in War Time. (Cambridge Riverside Press, 1895). Jones, Rufus M. The Quakers in the American Colonies. (London, Macmillan and Co., 1911). Tyler-McGraw, Marie. At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia and its People. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1994). |