Come-outers

The American and British anti-slavery movements were pretty religious, including Quakers, Methodists (I think) and various splinter sects such as the Come-outers.

Matthew Yglesias » Saudi Arabia 2007

Although a mob hustled Garrison through the streets of Boston, he appealed to the wilder shores of New England Protestantism, what Ralph Waldo Emerson half-seriously called “Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkards, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners.”

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

Adventists, Shakers, Mormons, and Come-outers, some of whom believed in trances, miracles, and direct revelations from the divine Spirit; others in the quick coming of Christ, as deduced from the opening of the seals and the number of the beast in the Apocalypse; and still others in the reorganization of society and {436} of the family on a different basis.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Adventists, Shakers, Mormons, and Come-outers, some of whom believed in trances, miracles, and direct revelations from the divine Spirit; others in the quick coming of Christ, as deduced from the opening of the seals and the number of the beast in the Apocalypse; and still others in the reorganization of society and of the family on a different basis.

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

Separatists, or "Come-outers," to use a New England phrase.

The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865

That square is for that region the headquarters of Abolitionists, Liberals, Come-outers, and so forth.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

Come-outers, down East, as an organ for their local peculiarities.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Then the people in the district were not _all_ Come-outers.

Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Joseph Barker 1840

"_Come-outers_" -- people who had left the churches and the ministry, and even separated themselves from civil organizations, resolved to be subject to no authority but their own wills or their own whims.

Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Joseph Barker 1840

-- got up by some of these Come-outers, down East, as an organ for their local peculiarities.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887