User:Smallbones/Longwood Progressive Friends Meeting House



THIS IS A DRAFT, but don't worry, I'll get around to it. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 19:20, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

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History of the Meeting from Tryptich "A reform movement which developed among Hicksite Friends in the 1840s, but also included many non-Quaker liberals and radicals. The largest group became formally organized as the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, which met at Longwood in Chester County, Pennsylvania, from 1853 to 1940. Progressive Friends advocated a religion of humanity which stressed the inherent goodness and perfectibility of humankind and promoted such reform causes as abolition of slavery, temperance, women's rights, opposition to capital punishment, prison reform, homestead legislation, pacifism, Indian rights, economic regulation, and practical and co-educational schooling. Proceedings of the annual meetings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meetings of Progressive Friends were published from 1853 to 1905. Progressive Friends in Waterloo (New York) and Michigan also published Proceedings."