Wormwood Scrubbs - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:51:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Wormwood Scrubbs - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 The Rise of Liberal Quakerism, Part 7 https://www.quakerranter.org/the-rise-of-liberal-quakerism-part-7/ https://www.quakerranter.org/the-rise-of-liberal-quakerism-part-7/#respond Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:51:21 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=60968 The Rise of Liberal Quakerism, Part 7

This was the first direct Quaker confrontation with the state in more than 200 years. The absolutists went to jail. For a while, Wormwood Scrubbs prison was the largest Friends meeting in London. The experience also turned Friends against solitary confinement, which they had originally pioneered.

The Rise of Liberal Quakerism, Part 7

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