WEBVTT - Wanna Protest Quaker-Style? Pull Out Your Tits 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:09.805 School of Humans. 0:00:11.525 --> 0:00:12.765 Hello filth heads. 0:00:12.845 --> 0:00:16.245 First of all, we got some huge news, absolutely enormous. 0:00:16.285 --> 0:00:18.605 So American Filth won an award. 0:00:18.925 --> 0:00:21.685 Ah want to give a huge shout out to the 0:00:21.685 --> 0:00:25.565 International Women's Podcast Awards for giving the show an award 0:00:25.645 --> 0:00:28.965 in Moment of Comedy gold he he I love to 0:00:28.965 --> 0:00:33.085 be celebrated, so go us. So yeah, Failth listeners, make 0:00:33.125 --> 0:00:34.965 sure you tell your friends that you listen to an 0:00:35.005 --> 0:00:37.445 award winning podcast and that they should also listen to 0:00:37.485 --> 0:00:40.605 the podcast so that we can keep making it. Yes, 0:00:40.685 --> 0:00:44.845 that's a threat. Speaking of threats, this is the last 0:00:44.845 --> 0:00:46.685 time I'm going to tell you about our live show 0:00:46.725 --> 0:00:51.045 because it's this Saturday at Dynamic El Dorado in Atlanta, Georgia, 0:00:51.445 --> 0:00:54.365 and we have a stellar lineup of comedians and we 0:00:54.445 --> 0:00:56.845 also got a lot of cool fun facts, and we're 0:00:56.845 --> 0:01:00.365 also going to have two extremely special guests. The first 0:01:00.405 --> 0:01:04.045 one is the Statue of Liberty, she's coming in from NYC. 0:01:04.685 --> 0:01:09.005 And another's special guests we have is Martha Washington resurrected 0:01:09.045 --> 0:01:12.765 from the dead. It's going to be crazy. So tickets 0:01:12.765 --> 0:01:15.725 to that are in the show notes and also on 0:01:15.765 --> 0:01:17.045 our Instagram. 0:01:16.525 --> 0:01:17.285 So check it out. 0:01:17.965 --> 0:01:20.565 But blah blah blah, announcements. Now we're going to get 0:01:20.565 --> 0:01:23.645 into some history, and we're going to go back to 0:01:23.685 --> 0:01:27.445 colonial times, because I feel like we've been dwelling a lot, 0:01:27.565 --> 0:01:30.125 and by we, I mean I specifically have been writing 0:01:30.125 --> 0:01:32.165 scripts about the nineteenth. 0:01:31.605 --> 0:01:34.005 Century, and so I'm a bit tired of that. 0:01:34.205 --> 0:01:36.325 So let's go back to the colonial times, back to 0:01:36.365 --> 0:01:40.205 the Massachusetts Bay Colony, back to those Puritans, and learn 0:01:40.285 --> 0:01:45.325 some filth about them. One of the most ironic things 0:01:45.365 --> 0:01:48.045 about the Puritans, who fled to the American colonies in 0:01:48.085 --> 0:01:50.925 the seventeenth century so that they could practice their religion 0:01:51.045 --> 0:01:53.565 is that once they were here, they were not open 0:01:53.645 --> 0:01:56.205 to people practicing another religion. 0:01:57.285 --> 0:01:58.605 Specifically, let's zoom in. 0:01:58.565 --> 0:02:01.925 On the Massachusetts Bay Colony, because there it was actually 0:02:01.965 --> 0:02:05.285 illegal to not go to church on Sunday, Puritan style, 0:02:06.085 --> 0:02:09.245 and if you didn't go, you got fined. Also, you 0:02:09.285 --> 0:02:11.365 often would get the living shit kicked out of you. 0:02:12.045 --> 0:02:14.645 But I suppose you deserved it because you made God mad. 0:02:19.485 --> 0:02:21.565 One of the groups who were super persecuted by the 0:02:21.605 --> 0:02:26.725 Puritans was the oatmeal people, Yes, the Quakers. And you 0:02:26.765 --> 0:02:31.205 know how one Quaker resisted these Puritans, Well, she went 0:02:31.245 --> 0:02:37.005 to church with her tits out cue the theme song. 0:02:46.125 --> 0:02:48.285 This is American filth and I'm Gabby Watts. Every week 0:02:48.325 --> 0:02:50.925 I tell you a filthy story from American history. This 0:02:50.965 --> 0:03:08.485 week Quaker jugs. So what does it mean to be 0:03:08.525 --> 0:03:11.125 a Quaker? I called it one of my good friends 0:03:11.125 --> 0:03:13.805 Mary At a Mendler who grew up amongst the Quakers, 0:03:14.205 --> 0:03:17.725 to tell me about it. Thanks for being the Quaker 0:03:17.765 --> 0:03:21.965 representative for this week. I think it's a really important 0:03:22.045 --> 0:03:25.725 historical role to have. What is Quakerism and how is it? 0:03:26.005 --> 0:03:29.685 How is it different from other types of like Protestantism. 0:03:30.365 --> 0:03:32.525 Yeah, so it was really cool is that Quackerism was 0:03:32.565 --> 0:03:35.885 started by this man named George Fox in England. And 0:03:36.485 --> 0:03:39.325 George Fox looks at the King and was like, with 0:03:39.525 --> 0:03:42.405 mine's so special, Like we're both humans, aren't we? Like 0:03:42.445 --> 0:03:45.085 why am I bowing to you? Like we're all We're 0:03:45.125 --> 0:03:46.285 all the same, We're all humans. 0:03:46.765 --> 0:03:46.965 Uh. 0:03:47.005 --> 0:03:48.045 And then the King was. 0:03:48.005 --> 0:03:50.525 Like, well, I'm gonna cut your head off. 0:03:50.445 --> 0:03:51.685 If you say them about loud. 0:03:51.885 --> 0:03:55.125 So he was like So then he moved to America 0:03:55.565 --> 0:04:01.925 and that's when Quakerism really got stronger. And there's two 0:04:02.045 --> 0:04:06.125 different types of Quakerism in America. But I was and 0:04:06.205 --> 0:04:08.685 can speak to what qua Kearism means for being on 0:04:08.725 --> 0:04:13.765 the on the eastern side unorganized Quaker and that meant 0:04:13.805 --> 0:04:16.885 that we would go to meeting on Sundays. Sometimes there 0:04:16.885 --> 0:04:20.885 would be an hour long like adult discussion before meeting. 0:04:21.325 --> 0:04:23.605 A meeting would just be we would sing three songs. 0:04:23.605 --> 0:04:26.525 We'd all come to a consensus on what three songs 0:04:26.525 --> 0:04:29.605 we wanted to sing, and then sit in silence for 0:04:29.605 --> 0:04:32.925 forty five minutes and if anyone is moved to speak 0:04:33.005 --> 0:04:35.925 during that time, then they can. But it's just something 0:04:36.125 --> 0:04:40.085 like a space where you can say what the light 0:04:40.165 --> 0:04:42.925 moves you to say. And that's something that they say 0:04:42.925 --> 0:04:46.885 in Quackrism a lot is that everyone has the same 0:04:46.965 --> 0:04:49.885 light within them and you can be moved by the 0:04:49.925 --> 0:04:55.125 light to speak in Quakerism, or you can also ask 0:04:55.645 --> 0:04:58.085 your fellow people to hold someone in the light if 0:04:58.085 --> 0:05:00.365 you're like thinking of someone or if someone's going through 0:05:00.365 --> 0:05:00.965 a rough time. 0:05:01.325 --> 0:05:02.845 Have you ever been moved to speak? 0:05:04.125 --> 0:05:07.405 I truly if you believe it, I'm signlent. 0:05:07.725 --> 0:05:10.805 Oh boy, oh wow, Mary, I don't know speaking the 0:05:11.885 --> 0:05:14.565 first forty five minutes in which you haven't said a word. 0:05:17.165 --> 0:05:21.125 Yeah, I've always been too scared. And did you know 0:05:21.205 --> 0:05:25.285 that that's how they got the name Quaker was because 0:05:25.325 --> 0:05:27.805 originally they're called the Society of Friends. 0:05:28.485 --> 0:05:30.325 But then some people. 0:05:30.565 --> 0:05:32.325 This might be a rumor too, but this is always 0:05:32.365 --> 0:05:34.605 what I heard was that ya on. 0:05:34.565 --> 0:05:36.805 This podcast, we don't like I don't like to verify 0:05:36.885 --> 0:05:37.165 and foe. 0:05:37.245 --> 0:05:40.685 So go ahead, okay, perfect, perfect when you have to 0:05:40.685 --> 0:05:43.165 speak of the stand up in front of and talk 0:05:43.245 --> 0:05:45.805 to everyone. And my meeting was really small, but some 0:05:45.885 --> 0:05:49.365 of them are a lot larger, and so then they 0:05:49.445 --> 0:05:51.485 noticed that people were shaking a little bit while they 0:05:51.525 --> 0:05:53.765 were talking. And then that's why they were like, oh, 0:05:53.845 --> 0:05:55.765 look at you guys, quake in while you're talking. 0:05:56.125 --> 0:05:57.245 A bunch of Quakers. 0:05:57.645 --> 0:06:00.365 And then the Quakers were like, that's right, we are 0:06:00.485 --> 0:06:02.885 Quakers because sometimes we're scared, and that's okay. 0:06:03.205 --> 0:06:05.445 So they took like the slur against them and they 0:06:05.685 --> 0:06:07.245 empowered themselves with it. 0:06:08.285 --> 0:06:09.405 I think that's nice. 0:06:09.565 --> 0:06:13.325 Yeah, well, I mean I was reading about it. I mean, 0:06:13.325 --> 0:06:17.125 this episode is mostly about in the seventeenth century when 0:06:17.165 --> 0:06:20.085 it kind of got going, but it seemed that I mean, 0:06:20.125 --> 0:06:22.805 obviously you're talking about the king. Obviously the king was like, 0:06:22.845 --> 0:06:25.485 George Fox, I'm gonna cut your freakin head off for 0:06:25.565 --> 0:06:28.165 saying these crazy things that you can like also access 0:06:28.245 --> 0:06:30.085 God in a way that like I can that we're 0:06:30.125 --> 0:06:33.005 not different blah blah blah. But you know, or were 0:06:33.045 --> 0:06:35.045 there other do you know of, like you know, the 0:06:35.165 --> 0:06:38.805 other reasons of why Puritans just freaking hated them? 0:06:39.285 --> 0:06:42.085 Well, I think a big reason why Puritans would have 0:06:42.125 --> 0:06:44.325 hated them is because they would have, especially in the 0:06:44.325 --> 0:06:47.965 seventeen hundreds, they were really into being simple, and you 0:06:47.965 --> 0:06:51.445 would think that Puritans would love that, but because they 0:06:51.485 --> 0:06:54.805 did have that, you know, that really simple garb that 0:06:55.365 --> 0:06:56.965 you see on the quick Grove no box. 0:06:57.525 --> 0:06:59.925 But then they eventually. 0:06:59.485 --> 0:07:03.805 Realized that like looking like especially simple made them come 0:07:03.845 --> 0:07:06.285 across as like better than I everybody, or like that 0:07:06.325 --> 0:07:08.645 they thought they were different than everybody, and then they 0:07:08.685 --> 0:07:10.445 were like, the whole point of this is that we're 0:07:10.525 --> 0:07:13.125 all the same, so we should just all just the saying. 0:07:13.485 --> 0:07:16.285 I know they were they were really into prison abolition, 0:07:16.925 --> 0:07:19.005 that's good, and Puritans love to bring. 0:07:20.325 --> 0:07:24.605 Puritans love prison, and they hate witches, and it seems 0:07:24.605 --> 0:07:27.245 like they kind of thought that the Quakers were witches 0:07:27.325 --> 0:07:28.645 too rude. 0:07:28.925 --> 0:07:31.485 But I can see how maybe they thought that maybe 0:07:31.525 --> 0:07:33.685 they were like, what are you guys even thinking about 0:07:33.725 --> 0:07:35.645 if you no one's telling you what to think. 0:07:35.925 --> 0:07:39.765 Yeah. Also, like if you're wearing a simple clothes, that's 0:07:39.805 --> 0:07:42.125 that's what witches love to wear, because you know, witches, 0:07:42.165 --> 0:07:45.045 they always be taking their rubes. They'd be disrobing all 0:07:45.085 --> 0:07:47.125 the time to go dance with satan you know. 0:07:47.845 --> 0:07:53.925 Yes, yes, and Quakers love square dancing and that could 0:07:53.965 --> 0:07:56.645 look satanic probably the Puritans. 0:07:56.925 --> 0:08:00.845 That is pretty satan like Docy dough your partner. Yeah, 0:08:01.565 --> 0:08:06.405 that's basically that's basically speaking that the tongue of snakes. 0:08:09.285 --> 0:08:11.845 That's basically what that is. 0:08:12.085 --> 0:08:16.125 Yeah, you yeah, and that's where all all Quakers know that. 0:08:16.485 --> 0:08:18.205 Yeah, all Quakers know that. 0:08:19.045 --> 0:08:21.125 Yeah, his children. 0:08:21.285 --> 0:08:23.525 Yeah, not to speak for all Quakers, but all Quakers. 0:08:23.565 --> 0:08:27.725 Yes, yeah, I think they'd all back me up. 0:08:27.765 --> 0:08:30.845 Everyone you meet on the Eastern side. 0:08:31.325 --> 0:08:34.445 Yeah, oh yeah. Why why are they called friends? 0:08:37.285 --> 0:08:39.925 Oh you know, I should I should know that. 0:08:40.765 --> 0:08:43.445 Well, No, I'll just I'll just I'll do a little 0:08:43.445 --> 0:08:45.405 bit of research and I'll just mention it on the pod. 0:08:45.485 --> 0:08:48.925 No worries, because you know, I guess it is rude 0:08:48.965 --> 0:08:51.605 to me to be like Marietta, you explain all of Quakerism. 0:08:51.725 --> 0:08:55.325 I'm not going to bother so rude. 0:08:56.125 --> 0:08:59.085 I shouldn't know why. I guess maybe George Tunks was 0:08:59.165 --> 0:09:03.205 just was just chilling. I feel like it just started 0:09:03.205 --> 0:09:04.325 as a friend group. 0:09:04.125 --> 0:09:04.325 You know. 0:09:04.445 --> 0:09:06.805 He's like, these are we're all my friends. These are 0:09:06.845 --> 0:09:10.365 the homies. We chill and we give each other advice 0:09:10.445 --> 0:09:13.685 on stuff. And what's nice is that, Like you know 0:09:13.685 --> 0:09:16.685 how people go to their minister or the priest for 0:09:16.925 --> 0:09:21.085 advice and plagiarism, you just form a committee. You ask 0:09:21.125 --> 0:09:23.845 them to form a committee to help you think through something, 0:09:24.365 --> 0:09:26.725 and then you just get another little group of friends 0:09:26.765 --> 0:09:27.805 to help you with stuff. 0:09:28.125 --> 0:09:30.045 Oh nice, like a panel of pals. 0:09:30.565 --> 0:09:34.085 Yeah, exactly, exactly. Society of friends, panel of pals. 0:09:34.645 --> 0:09:37.765 Yeah, I like, I like the idea. Society of the homies. 0:09:37.925 --> 0:09:38.565 That's really what. 0:09:38.765 --> 0:09:41.685 Yeah, exactly, you're all just chilling. 0:09:42.325 --> 0:09:47.405 Yeah, well that you've heard it here, folks. What is Quakerism? 0:09:47.405 --> 0:09:48.605 It's where you're just chilling. 0:09:49.525 --> 0:09:51.085 Yeah. 0:09:51.165 --> 0:09:53.285 Well, Mary Etta, thank you so much for your insights 0:09:53.405 --> 0:09:56.085 on this would be really helpful for the episode that 0:09:56.085 --> 0:09:58.965 we're about to do. So thank you so much for 0:09:59.005 --> 0:10:01.125 being the spokesperson of all Quakers. 0:10:02.205 --> 0:10:04.285 Thank you, honor. 0:10:06.245 --> 0:10:10.565 That was Marietta Mendler, our Quaker correspondent for the show, 0:10:11.645 --> 0:10:13.445 and I guess I did a little bit of research, 0:10:13.485 --> 0:10:16.925 I suppose, just to clarify a couple things. So the 0:10:17.005 --> 0:10:21.765 Quaker founder George Fox, apparently the reason they're called friends 0:10:22.005 --> 0:10:25.685 is after a Bible verse from John fifteen fourteen that says, 0:10:26.085 --> 0:10:28.685 you are my friends if I do what I command you. 0:10:30.365 --> 0:10:32.205 So I guess what means to be a Quaker is 0:10:32.245 --> 0:10:36.005 that God he's like your pal. You know, he's your friend. 0:10:36.725 --> 0:10:39.365 No friends do they command you to do stuff. That's 0:10:39.365 --> 0:10:42.445 how I express my friendship. I just I really appreciate 0:10:42.565 --> 0:10:47.245 acts of service, just like the Lord. But you know, 0:10:47.285 --> 0:10:49.845 if you're trying to think about Quakers, some things that 0:10:49.925 --> 0:10:53.445 they believe in is that God is everywhere. We should 0:10:53.485 --> 0:10:56.645 have community, there should be a quality. They were very 0:10:56.725 --> 0:10:59.765 much involved in social justice. I mean, early on some 0:10:59.885 --> 0:11:03.805 Quakers did own slaves, but they were prohibited from owning 0:11:03.845 --> 0:11:07.845 slaves starting in seventeen some and they were some early 0:11:07.965 --> 0:11:13.685 abolitionists in the new United States of America. But you know, 0:11:13.805 --> 0:11:17.605 they were pacifists. They were very anti authority, they're very 0:11:17.645 --> 0:11:21.365 anti prison. You know, they would wear the simple dress. 0:11:21.525 --> 0:11:27.925 They were into being frugal, didn't like excess and Obviously 0:11:27.965 --> 0:11:30.125 the Puritans were like, fuf fricking hate that. 0:11:31.605 --> 0:11:32.805 Boo Quakers. 0:11:35.125 --> 0:11:37.685 But as I was talking about with Marietta, so the 0:11:37.965 --> 0:11:40.845 Quakers were absolutely despised. 0:11:41.685 --> 0:11:44.485 Absolutely, Like if. 0:11:44.405 --> 0:11:47.125 We're looking at the mid seventeenth century in the colonies 0:11:47.165 --> 0:11:50.285 and also in Mummy England, the Quakers were being rounded 0:11:50.365 --> 0:11:53.045 up and jailed and then also having the ship beat 0:11:53.085 --> 0:11:58.085 out of them. And you know what was so bad 0:11:58.085 --> 0:12:01.165 about them according to the Puritans, Well, you know, they 0:12:01.165 --> 0:12:04.245 were weird, they were radical. They were saying, like anyone 0:12:04.285 --> 0:12:08.165 can access God's insane. The Puritan elite they like to 0:12:08.245 --> 0:12:10.685 gate keep God. They're like, no, you need us to 0:12:10.805 --> 0:12:15.005 access God. Ugh, you guys are crazy. And then sometimes 0:12:15.085 --> 0:12:19.245 Quakers with their meetings, with their beliefs, they were kind 0:12:19.285 --> 0:12:23.005 of mystical in some ways, and so a lot of people, yeah, 0:12:23.005 --> 0:12:26.405 they're like, uugh, quakersm that's basically like being a witch. 0:12:26.485 --> 0:12:33.725 We don't like that. And so yeah, the Quakers, they 0:12:33.765 --> 0:12:37.085 weren't having a great time. And in sixteen sixty three 0:12:37.125 --> 0:12:41.085 there was this one Quaker, Lydia Perkins Wardell, and she 0:12:41.245 --> 0:12:45.285 was about to experience some of that Puritan wrath. Lucky her, 0:12:48.205 --> 0:12:50.525 so Lydia was born a regular old Puritan in the 0:12:50.565 --> 0:12:54.365 Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was described as young and tender, 0:12:54.525 --> 0:12:57.445 a chaste woman. But then she got married to this 0:12:57.525 --> 0:13:01.325 dude named Elia Kim, and that's when he and thus 0:13:01.445 --> 0:13:04.445 she became a Quaker. Because that's what you do as 0:13:04.445 --> 0:13:07.165 a dutiful wife. You convert to a religion where they 0:13:07.165 --> 0:13:10.685 beat the shit out of you. Excellent idea, like him, 0:13:11.205 --> 0:13:14.365 I've been meaning to get some whippings. 0:13:14.885 --> 0:13:16.525 Or you know, she might have liked being a Quaker. 0:13:16.645 --> 0:13:17.205 We don't know. 0:13:17.685 --> 0:13:24.405 Her perspective wasn't written down, how helpful. But anyway, no 0:13:24.485 --> 0:13:27.725 matter how she felt about it, she was likely very 0:13:27.805 --> 0:13:30.725 aware about what was going on with Quakers. She probably 0:13:30.805 --> 0:13:33.925 knew about the tale of Anne Austin Mary Fisher. For example. 0:13:34.405 --> 0:13:37.845 They were both Quakers from London, and they were like, huzzah, 0:13:37.885 --> 0:13:40.445 we're going to go take everything George Fox has said 0:13:40.485 --> 0:13:44.245 and spread it around the New World. So they got 0:13:44.245 --> 0:13:47.325 on this boat called the Swallow. They went over to Barbados. 0:13:48.605 --> 0:13:51.325 People in Barbados were like, hey, this actually seems like 0:13:51.325 --> 0:13:55.325 a cool idea. That's interesting. But then Anne and Mary 0:13:55.405 --> 0:13:58.085 were about to have a terrible time because they decided 0:13:58.125 --> 0:14:03.485 to sail up to the northern colonies, And when they arrived, 0:14:03.565 --> 0:14:08.045 the deputy governor of the Massachusetts Colony, Richard Bellingham, ordered 0:14:08.085 --> 0:14:12.765 them to be detained on board. Some officers searched their 0:14:12.765 --> 0:14:15.925 stuff and seized one hundred books of theirs, carried them 0:14:15.925 --> 0:14:21.125 off the boat and burned them. Also, he imagined, and 0:14:21.165 --> 0:14:24.885 traveling with one hundred books, what a burden doesn't all 0:14:24.885 --> 0:14:28.645 fit in a carry on? And now why did Richard 0:14:28.645 --> 0:14:32.685 Bellingham order them to burn those books? When the two 0:14:32.685 --> 0:14:36.485 women arrived on July eleventh, sixteen fifty six, he called 0:14:36.485 --> 0:14:41.125 a council together in Boston, and they said this, upon examination, 0:14:41.245 --> 0:14:44.525 are found not only to be transgressors of the former laws, 0:14:44.725 --> 0:14:49.965 but to hold very dangerous, heretical and blasphemous opinions. And 0:14:50.005 --> 0:14:52.485 they do also acknowledge that they came here purposely to 0:14:52.525 --> 0:14:55.965 propagate their said errors and heresies, bringing with them and 0:14:55.965 --> 0:15:00.565 spreading here sundry books wherein are contained most corrupt, heretical 0:15:00.685 --> 0:15:03.925 and blasphemous doctrines contrary to the truth of the Gospel. 0:15:04.285 --> 0:15:11.125 Here professed a us dangerous, heretical, blasphemous I think that 0:15:11.165 --> 0:15:15.965 could be a good song. But anyway, after that, Mary 0:15:15.965 --> 0:15:18.805 and Anne's ordeal got even worse. The two of them 0:15:18.845 --> 0:15:21.365 were thrown in jail and they weren't even allowed to 0:15:21.445 --> 0:15:23.765 use a candle to light the room they were in. 0:15:24.885 --> 0:15:27.605 Then they were stripped naked and examined in all their 0:15:27.685 --> 0:15:30.805 nooks and crannies because you know, that's where Quakerism is. 0:15:31.565 --> 0:15:32.525 And apparently one of. 0:15:32.445 --> 0:15:36.125 Their examiners was a man disguised in woman's clothing, so 0:15:36.325 --> 0:15:41.485 just a little pervert trying to get some action. After 0:15:41.525 --> 0:15:46.365 that examination, their cell was locked and boarded up. Not 0:15:46.485 --> 0:15:49.645 even food could get into where they were, and so 0:15:49.725 --> 0:15:53.085 the attention of these Massachusetts Bay Puritans was basically to 0:15:53.165 --> 0:15:59.525 starve them. But luckily for these two ladies, there was 0:15:59.565 --> 0:16:03.085 an innkeeper who was really sympathetic to their cause, and 0:16:03.125 --> 0:16:06.005 so he bribed the jailer to give them food and 0:16:06.045 --> 0:16:07.165 then they were released. 0:16:07.165 --> 0:16:08.565 Five weeks later. 0:16:09.925 --> 0:16:12.445 They got back on board their boat, went to Barbados 0:16:12.485 --> 0:16:18.925 and then back to England, so their trip not necessarily successful. 0:16:19.005 --> 0:16:22.645 But that innkeeper who helped them out he became a 0:16:22.725 --> 0:16:28.965 Quaker and started spreading the Quakerism around and then literally 0:16:29.005 --> 0:16:31.445 a few days after Anne and Mary left, some other 0:16:31.525 --> 0:16:35.285 Quakers landed in the Massachusetts Bay colony and those dudes 0:16:35.325 --> 0:16:36.685 were also imprisoned. 0:16:37.685 --> 0:16:39.285 They were also released several. 0:16:39.045 --> 0:16:42.925 Weeks later after a lot of torture and torment. But 0:16:42.965 --> 0:16:46.365 when the second round of Quaker missionaries landed, that's when 0:16:46.405 --> 0:16:48.725 the people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were like, we 0:16:48.805 --> 0:16:54.125 need to pass some laws that are anti Quaker. The 0:16:54.205 --> 0:16:56.845 first law was like, if Quakers got on a boat 0:16:56.925 --> 0:17:00.285 from England over to the Colonies, the captain of that 0:17:00.365 --> 0:17:02.925 boat is not allowed to let them get on land. 0:17:04.005 --> 0:17:05.125 If the captain lets. 0:17:04.925 --> 0:17:07.525 The Quakers off the boat, he has to page a 0:17:07.605 --> 0:17:12.285 huge fine because yuck Quakers. And then another law was like, 0:17:12.325 --> 0:17:14.605 but if a Quaker does make it onto the land, 0:17:15.285 --> 0:17:17.485 they are to be committed to the House of Correction 0:17:18.005 --> 0:17:21.125 where they must be severely whipped. And then we're gonna 0:17:21.125 --> 0:17:24.165 make them do hard labor constantly, and no one is 0:17:24.205 --> 0:17:25.965 allowed to talk to them. 0:17:26.165 --> 0:17:27.925 The next year got even crazier. 0:17:28.045 --> 0:17:29.765 There was a law that was passed that said, any 0:17:29.845 --> 0:17:32.885 Quaker that enters Massachusetts Bay Colony must have one of 0:17:32.885 --> 0:17:35.885 his ears cut off, and then if he keeps being 0:17:35.885 --> 0:17:39.885 a Quaker, he'll lose another ear, and then for the 0:17:39.925 --> 0:17:42.685 third time, if he's still being a Quaker, they'd pull 0:17:42.725 --> 0:17:45.965 out this man's tongue and stick it through with a 0:17:46.005 --> 0:17:52.405 hot iron. Yikes, that's apparently just for the dude Quakers. 0:17:52.445 --> 0:17:54.765 The women Quakers, all they have to do is get 0:17:54.805 --> 0:18:00.485 beat severely. Then in sixteen sixty one there was another 0:18:00.565 --> 0:18:04.965 decree that said any wandering Quakers will be apprehended, strip 0:18:05.085 --> 0:18:08.365 naked from the middle upward, tied to carts, and then 0:18:08.405 --> 0:18:12.325 whipped through the town. And at this point the colony's 0:18:12.365 --> 0:18:16.045 prisons were filled with Quakers, and there was even four 0:18:16.285 --> 0:18:21.165 executions people being executed just for being Quakers. But then 0:18:21.325 --> 0:18:25.645 King Charles the Second put out this decree that was like, hey, guys, sorry, 0:18:25.685 --> 0:18:29.405 but you can't actually kill the Quakers just because they're Quakers. 0:18:29.485 --> 0:18:35.405 So calm down, sure beat them whatever, just no executions, thanks. 0:18:38.765 --> 0:18:39.405 For everyone. 0:18:39.445 --> 0:18:42.485 In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was illegal to not 0:18:42.565 --> 0:18:45.565 go to Puritan church on Sundays. If you didn't go 0:18:45.565 --> 0:18:49.045 to church, you got fined or they might give you 0:18:49.085 --> 0:18:52.965 one of those severe whippings. And so back to Lydia. Lydia, 0:18:53.005 --> 0:18:56.085 as a Quaker, knew about this punishment. She had probably 0:18:56.085 --> 0:18:58.765 witnessed this, specifically in the case of three other women 0:18:58.885 --> 0:19:04.285 and coleman, Mary Tomkins and Alice Ambrose in sixteen sixty two. 0:19:04.325 --> 0:19:07.925 A year before this happened to Lydia, Tompkins and Ambrose 0:19:07.925 --> 0:19:11.365 had tried to organize a Quaker group in Dover, but 0:19:11.405 --> 0:19:14.445 then the police, I said, the police, the Purton's not 0:19:14.485 --> 0:19:17.685 the police. The Peerton elite were like, get the hell 0:19:17.725 --> 0:19:20.085 out of here. So the two of them left. But 0:19:20.125 --> 0:19:23.005 then a year later they were determined to get Quakerism 0:19:23.005 --> 0:19:25.845 in Dover, so they came back, and this time they 0:19:25.845 --> 0:19:28.685 were joined by Coleman, and they started another group, but 0:19:28.725 --> 0:19:32.805 were quickly discovered, and then the magistrate ordered their punishment. 0:19:33.325 --> 0:19:37.245 The punishment read, you and the King's name are to 0:19:37.285 --> 0:19:40.565 take these vagabond Quakers and Coleman, Marry Tompkins and Alice 0:19:40.565 --> 0:19:44.045 Ambrose and fastened them to a cart's tail, driving the 0:19:44.085 --> 0:19:47.005 cart through several towns, whipped them on their backs ten 0:19:47.125 --> 0:19:51.005 times in each town, and so conveyed them from constable 0:19:51.045 --> 0:19:56.205 to constable until they'd come out of this jurisdiction. So yeah, 0:19:56.285 --> 0:19:59.605 he was condemning them to a whipping tour. So in 0:19:59.645 --> 0:20:03.485 the winter of sixteen sixty two, which is before global warming, 0:20:03.565 --> 0:20:04.365 so I imagine it was. 0:20:04.405 --> 0:20:05.165 Cold as hell. 0:20:05.805 --> 0:20:08.165 They were indeed tied to a cart stripped from the 0:20:08.205 --> 0:20:11.645 waist down and toted it from town to town being whipped. 0:20:15.965 --> 0:20:18.285 Luckily they didn't have to finish their tour because in 0:20:18.405 --> 0:20:22.845 Salisbury the authorities were like, this is too much, and 0:20:22.885 --> 0:20:28.205 they released the three women. And you would think after 0:20:28.325 --> 0:20:30.925 being on a whipping tour, tied to a cart with 0:20:31.045 --> 0:20:35.245 your shirt taken off, that maybe you'd be encouraged not 0:20:35.445 --> 0:20:39.685 to preach Quakerism in Dover. But these three women. A 0:20:39.765 --> 0:20:43.325 year later, they went back to Dover yet again, and 0:20:43.365 --> 0:20:46.005 this time the authorities dragged them down to the river 0:20:46.085 --> 0:20:50.245 and were like, we're gonna drown you. But apparently during 0:20:50.285 --> 0:20:55.205 this altercation a strong wind swept through which pushed back 0:20:55.245 --> 0:20:59.845 the Puritan authorities and the women were able to escape. 0:21:00.205 --> 0:21:05.085 This feels fake, but okay, but when these women were 0:21:05.165 --> 0:21:08.525 tit out on their whipping tour, I mean they didn't 0:21:08.645 --> 0:21:11.005 on purpose have their tits out, That's just what the 0:21:11.045 --> 0:21:15.165 Puritans made them do. Lydia and her husband Alia him 0:21:15.205 --> 0:21:18.005 were some of the spectators. You know, they had to 0:21:18.005 --> 0:21:21.885 go support their friends, being like, I'm sorry you're getting whipped. 0:21:22.565 --> 0:21:24.485 We're on your side. 0:21:25.125 --> 0:21:26.845 They saw them when they were on their first stop 0:21:26.885 --> 0:21:30.685 in Dover and the Puritan reverend there was being a 0:21:30.725 --> 0:21:33.805 little bitch about it. He quote stood and looked and 0:21:33.925 --> 0:21:38.605 laughed at it, and Eliakim was like, damn, this guy sucks. 0:21:38.765 --> 0:21:41.365 He called him a brute and then for calling him that, 0:21:41.845 --> 0:21:49.485 Aliakim was thrown in jail. But that wasn't the first 0:21:49.485 --> 0:21:52.125 time Aliakim had been thrown in jail. Ever since they 0:21:52.125 --> 0:21:55.685 had converted to Quakerism, Lydia and alike Him had been 0:21:55.725 --> 0:21:59.205 having a hard time. Like him, was constantly harassed, he 0:21:59.285 --> 0:22:02.845 was beaten up. But this Quaker couple did some pretty 0:22:02.925 --> 0:22:06.005 radical stuff. They hid notable Quakers in their home who 0:22:06.045 --> 0:22:09.285 were fleeing prosecution. At one point, there was actually a 0:22:09.365 --> 0:22:12.445 raid on their household, which was encouraged by a local 0:22:12.525 --> 0:22:15.325 reverend who was trying to quote keep the wolves from 0:22:15.405 --> 0:22:26.565 his sheep. Oh, you know, those aggressive pacifist Quakers. And 0:22:26.605 --> 0:22:29.925 along with all this physical punishment, Elia Him had also 0:22:29.965 --> 0:22:33.565 been fined multiple times for not going to church, and 0:22:33.605 --> 0:22:36.685 with all of these finds that he constantly got, basically 0:22:36.725 --> 0:22:39.245 all of his assets had been taken away from him 0:22:39.285 --> 0:22:43.325 and his family. He was also getting fined for Lydia's 0:22:43.325 --> 0:22:47.605 absence from church, and eventually, because the Puritans had done 0:22:47.725 --> 0:22:51.725 just about everything to alia him that they could, because remember, 0:22:51.765 --> 0:22:55.885 you couldn't just kill Quakers anymore. The church summoned Lydia 0:22:55.965 --> 0:22:59.125 to answer for her absence from church and for quote 0:22:59.205 --> 0:23:04.845 teaching false doctrine, and so Lydia, probably understanding that what 0:23:04.965 --> 0:23:07.125 happened to them those women in Dover was about to 0:23:07.165 --> 0:23:11.765 happen to her, she was like, HM, let's protest this shit. 0:23:12.285 --> 0:23:17.485 I ain't got nothing to lose. So she went down 0:23:17.525 --> 0:23:21.085