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Elias Hicks

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March 19, 1748, Hempstead Township, Long Island, New York [U.S.]
Died:
February 27, 1830, Jericho, Long Island, New York, U.S. (aged 81)
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Elias Hicks (born March 19, 1748, Hempstead Township, Long Island, New York [U.S.]—died February 27, 1830, Jericho, Long Island, New York, U.S.) was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States and a liberal Quaker preacher whose followers became known as Hicksites, one of two factions created by the schism of 1827–28 in American Quakerism. After assisting in ridding the Society of Friends (Quakers) of slavery, Hicks worked for general abolition. He urged a boycott of the products of slave labour, advocated establishment of an area in the Southwest as a home for freed slaves, and ...(100 of 220 words)

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