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Who Were Quakers?

Quakers became a religion followed by the people who believed in equal rights of men and women. George Fox was the founder of the Quaker Movement. Issac T. Hopper, a Quaker abolitionist from Philadelphia started an underground railroad network which helped slaves who were on the run and In North Carolina, Quakers laid the similar groundwork to provide routes and shelters for the slaves who were on the run.
In 1786, George Washington complained that Quakers has tried to free one of his slaves.