Quakers living in the lion's mouth: the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865
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1. Verfasser: Crothers, A. Glenn (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida 2012
Schriftenreihe:Southern dissent
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Beschreibung:Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Quakers living in the lion's mouth; 1. Friends come to Northern Virginia; 2. Finding a path of virtue in a revolutionary world; 3. The "worldly cares and business" of friends; 4. Embracing "the oppressor as well as the oppressed": quaker antislavery before 1830; 5. Internal revolutions: the hicksite schism and Its consequences; 6. Strengthening the bonds of fellowship: the domestic and public lives of Quaker women
7. A "nest of abolitionists": antislavery goals and southern identities8. "The union forever": Northern Virginia quakers in the Civil War; Epilogue: conflicting paths of virtue in Nineteenth-Century America; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cult
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (372 pages)
ISBN:0813039738
0813042224
9780813039732
9780813042220

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