Kate and Margaret Fox are sent to…

1848 CE

Kate and Margaret Fox are sent to nearby Rochester during the excitement—Kate to the house of her sister Leah (now the married Leah Fox Fish), and Margaret to the home of her brother David—and the rappings follow them.

Amy and Isaac Post, a radical Quaker couple and long-standing friends of the Fox family, invite the girls into their Rochester home.

Immediately convinced of the genuineness of the phenomena, they help to spread the word among their radical Quaker friends, who become the early core of Spiritualists.

In this way appears the association between Spiritualism and radical political causes, such as abolition, temperance, and equal rights for women.

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Rochester Monroe New York United States View →

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