Quaker persecution began in Massachusetts in July 1656 as soon as the first two Quakers sailed into Boston Harbor. Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrived on the Swallow, a ship from Barbados, with a trunk full of Quaker writings. Puritan magistrates had them strip searched in public for signs of witchcraft, jailed them, deprived them […]
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