A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers

Name: A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
Author: William Penn

William Penn (1644–1718) was an English Quaker writer and the founder of Pennsylvania. Expelled from Oxford for nonconformity and several times imprisoned for his Quaker preaching and writing, he secured a royal charter in 1681 and established his colony as a refuge of religious toleration, treating the Lenape peoples with unusual fairness. Our library holds his Primitive Christianity Revived and his account of the rise of the Quakers.

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First published: 1694
Category: Church History
Length: 25k words · about 2 hours
Chapters: 8
Narration: 🎧 Heart · American English

About this book

William Penn's brief history of the rise of the people called Quakers, first published in 1694. Penn describes their beginnings in the England of the 1650s, their principles, and the persecutions they endured. Written by the movement's most famous leader, it is a primary account of early Quakerism by an insider.