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

ISBN: 9780813039732 | 0813039738
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Pub. Date: 4/29/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
"A major contribution to our understanding of the American South and the history of American religion and reform."-Dee E. Andrews, author of The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 17601800 "A model study of an antislavery, reformist minority trying to find its place in the Antebellum South."-Thomas D. Hamm, author of The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 18001907 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, pa... MORE
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List of Illustrationsp. ix
Forewordp. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Prologue: Quakers Living in the LionĘs Mouthp. 1
Friends Come to Northern Virginiap. 8
Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary Worldp. 38
The "Worldly Cares and Business" of Friendsp. 72
Embracing "the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed": Quaker Antislavery before 1830p. 106
Internal Revolutions: The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequencesp. 136
Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship: The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Womenp. 170
A "Nest of Abolitionists": Antislavery Goals and Southern Identitiesp. 204
"The Union Forever": Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil Warp. 237
Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Americap. 272
Notesp. 279
Bibliographyp. 323
Indexp. 355
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