Hicks, Elias

A Dictionary of American Authors · 1904 · p. 117

L. I., 1748-1830. A famous Quaker controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hick site Quakers. He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. Observations on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks; Doctrinal Epistle. See Letters of; History of the Friends, by S. Janney, infra.