Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth : The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 /

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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...

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Autor principal: Crothers, A. Glenn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White people > Attitudes.
Society of Friends.
Social conditions
Religious pluralism.
Quakers.
Quaker women.
Pacifism.
Dissenters.
Antislavery movements.
RELIGION > Christianity > Quaker.
Blancs > Virginie (Nord) > Attitudes > Histoire.
Quakeresses > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire.
Pacifisme > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire.
Dissidents > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire.
Societe des Amis > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire.
Quakers > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Quakers > Virginie (Nord) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
White people > Virginia, Northern > Attitudes > History.
Religious pluralism > Virginia, Northern > History.
Quaker women > Virginia, Northern > History.
Antislavery movements > Virginia, Northern > History.
Pacifism > Virginia, Northern > History.
Dissenters > Virginia, Northern > History.
Society of Friends > Virginia, Northern > History.
Quakers > Virginia, Northern > History > 19th century.
Quakers > Virginia, Northern > History > 18th century.
Northern Virginia.
Virginie (Nord) > Conditions sociales.
Virginia, Northern > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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