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These Songs Shook the Prison Gates 

These Songs Shook the Prison Gates  Antiwar protests continue as Quakers resist State Violence

In 1653, a jailer beat George Fox with a cudgel. Fox “was made to sing in the Lord’s power.” The jailer brought a fiddler to drown him out — but the Spirit’s song won.
The Quaker tradition of spiritual singing in prison runs deep.

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