Question

In what way did the Quakers of the 1600s and 1700s promote equality?

Answer 1

Unlike the common of people of their time, the Quakers agreeably supported:

1) the social and political fairness of the sexes.

2) The elimination of slavery, which they saw as evil.

3) That no lands should be gotten from native peoples but through

cooperation and mutual agreement.

4) Complete nonviolence.

5) No class differences.

6) Whole open-mindedness of other religious views.