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Why are Quakers still banned in Massachusetts?

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That's absurd, there is no such ban on Quakers or quakerism in the United states. read more

Beginning in 1656, members of the newly formed Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) started to arrive in the Massachusetts colony on ships from England, where Quakerism had recently emerged. The Quakers who arrived in Boston's harbor demanded that they be allowed to live in Massachusetts and practice their own religion freely. read more

Only four Quakers (three men and one woman) were hanged during this period of Quaker persecution, but it left its mark on the community. A statue of the woman who was hanged, Mary Dyer, sits in Boston Square today as a reminder of the religious intolerance of our earliest European settlers and of Dyer’s bravery in pursuing her convictions in spite of the dangers she faced for it. read more

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