"Quaker Women in the American Colonies"
During the colonial period, women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century, unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote, stand up in court, and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted, they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones, a professor at Harvard, the Quakers “felt, as their own testimony plainly shows, that they were not solitary adventurers, but that God was pushing them out to be the bearers of a new and mighty word of Life which was to remake the world, and that the whole group behind them was in some sense embodied in them.” Women like Margaret Fell and Mary Dyer contributed to the Quaker religion and bolstered their communities, even through great personal hardship. Margaret Fell was the wife of George Fox, the creator of the Society of Friends, and she held a......
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