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    11. Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends (the first caused by George Keith in 1691). [1]

  2. Elias Hicks 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.

  3. Elias Hicks, 1748–1830, American Quaker preacher, b. Hempstead, N.Y. He worked on his Long Island farm between his preaching tours, which established his reputation as one of the most able Quaker preachers of the times. Hicks worked against slavery, publishing his Observations on Slavery in 1811.

  4. The doctrinal views of Elias Hicks have been diversely understood or construed by different individuals according to the point of view from which they were contemplated.

  5. Elias Hicks (1748–1830) was a Quaker leader who opposed the orthodox doctrines of Christ and the Atonement. He also supported the rights of the negroes and caused a split in the Quaker movement in 1827–8.

  6. Elias Hicks (1748-1830), a Quaker farmer from Long Island, became the focal point of criticism from more evangelical Quakers. He was a strong abolitionist and challenged wealthy Friends and the use of any products of slave labor.

  7. A collection of papers relating to Elias Hicks, a prominent Quaker minister and leader of the Hicksite movement in the 1820s. The collection includes his correspondence, sermons, journals, and other documents from 1779 to 1948.