Seventeenth-century Quakers, emotions, and egalitarianism

This chapter discusses intolerance, oppression, and slavery, and the language of emotions which seventeenth-century Quakers expressed in their descriptions of the causes and experiences of sufferings under persecution and oppression, in their support for egalitarianism and religious toleration, and in their discussions of slavery, which included the emergence of important radical anti-slavery arguments invoking especially the golden rule, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.