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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950- Quaker community on Barbados. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009 (OCoLC)1001962239 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry Dale Gragg |
ISBN: | 9780826218476 0826218474 |
OCLC Number: | 277196213 |
Notes: | "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 publisher. |
Description: | x, 192 pages : map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "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. |
Responsibility: | Larry Gragg. |
Abstract:
Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. Here Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life. In this volume, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions.
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- 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.
- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
- Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
- Barbados -- Church history.
- Community life.
- Counterculture.
- Plantation owners.
- Quakers.
- Slavery.
- Social conflict.
- Social conditions
- Barbados.