This book traces the Quaker experience in New England and New York
from the Arrival of the first English Quaker missionaries in 1646
to 1790. The first Friends faced considerable hostility, so much so
that it took almost eighty years for Quakers and their antagonists
to solve their differences. By then, Quakers had settled into a
comfortable period of numerical increase, and, to the extent that
colonies permitted, participated as individuals in colonial
political life. During the early eighteenth century Quaker
organizational and disciplinary structures derived from the late
seventeenth century underwent gradual evolution, but not to the
extent of altering the basically comfortable arrangement that
served to promote the growth of Friends. After 1750, however,
Quakers throughout the colonies entered a period of reform, a
reform that led to a numerical decline in older centers and to a
drastic reduction in numerical growth. Reform ultimately caused
Friends to sharpen their positions on antislavery and pacifism and
led to a withdrawal from political participation. Ultimately, it
pointed the way to the disastrous nineteenth-century Quaker
schisms.
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