The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class /

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"Focusing primarily on the seventeenth century, Gragg draws on wills, censuses, levy books, letters, sermons and journals to tell how Quakers on Barbados sought to implement their beliefs in a place ruled by a planter class that had built its wealth on the backs of slaves"--Provided by pub...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1600-1699
Quakers > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Community life > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Counterculture > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Slavery > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Plantation owners > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Social conflict > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Quakers > Barbade > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Communauté > Barbade > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Contre-culture > Barbade > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Propriétaires de plantations > Barbade > Histoire > 17e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > Quaker.
Community life.
Counterculture.
Plantation owners.
Quakers.
Slavery.
Social conflict.
Social conditions
Barbados > History > 17th century.
Barbados > Social conditions > 17th century.
Barbados > Church history.
Barbade > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Barbade > Conditions sociales > 17e siècle.
Barbade > Histoire religieuse.
Barbados.
Church history.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "From darkness to light" : the emergence of the Society of Friends in England
  • "A little England" : the development of Barbados as England's most prosperous colony
  • "Many people convinced" : establishing the Quaker community on Barbados
  • "Amongst them called Quakers in this island" : the people attracted to the Quaker community
  • "Kept in the heavenly awe of God" : the creation of a Quaker counter-culture on Barbados
  • "Uncharitably pursued and anathematized with words, and execrations, and bitter invectives, by a base sort of phanatick people, commonly termed Quakers" : the Quaker critique of the dominant culture
  • "Thou hast no right to reign over their conscience in matters of worship of the living God" : the Quaker challenge to slavery on Barbados
  • "We are reduced to a very small number" : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados
  • Epilogue.

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