Quakers living in the lion's mouth the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 /
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 o...
| Основен автор: | Crothers, A. Glenn. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Southern dissent.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=463211 |
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Print version::
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth : The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865. |
Съдържание:
- 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.