How many Quakers are ethnically African-American?

Black, Native American, and white abolitionists worked together on the Underground Railroad. From 1852 to 1865, Quaker abolitionists Thomas and Hannah Atkinson's farmhouse, located in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania, was used as an Underground Railroad station. read more

Relatively few American Quakers are black. However, the largest group of Quakers in the world are African, especially Kenyan. That is because of some well-timed Quaker evangelists over 100 years ago, whose messages found a receptive audience. African Quakers of course are African and not African American, the latter being found only in the USA. read more

This resource provides the biographies of African American Quakers from as long ago as the colonial period. FGC encourages their use in First Day school lessons and in other educational situations. read more