Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 / A. Glenn Crothers ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crothers, A. Glenn.

Series:

Southern dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quakers--Virginia, Northern--History--18th century.

Quakers.

Quakers--Virginia, Northern--History--19th century.

Society of Friends--Virginia, Northern--History.

Society of Friends.

Dissenters--Virginia, Northern--History.

Dissenters.

Pacifism--Virginia, Northern--History.

Pacifism.

Antislavery movements--Virginia, Northern--History.

Antislavery movements.

Quaker women--Virginia, Northern--History.

Quaker women.

Religious pluralism--Virginia, Northern--History.

Religious pluralism.

White people--Virginia, Northern--Attitudes--History.

White people.

Social conditions.

History.

Virginia, Northern--Social conditions.

Virginia, Northern.

Northern Virginia.

Physical Description:

xv, 372 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]

Summary:

This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis.

By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community from its settlement in 1730 through the end of the Civil War, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties.

Although this is an examination of a small community over time, the work deals with larger historical issues, such as the evolving nature of southern identity, how religious values are formed and evolve within a group, and how these beliefs shape behavior even in the face of increasing hostility and isolation.

A. Glenn Crothers, associate professor of history at the University of Louisville, is director of research at The Filson Historical Society and coeditor of Ohio Valley History.

A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth

Friends Come to Northern Virginia

Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World

The "Worldly Cares and Business" of Friends

Embracing "the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed" : Quaker Antislavery before 1830

Internal Revolutions : The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences

Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship : The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women

A "Nest of Abolitionists" : Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities

"The Union Forever" : Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War

Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813039732

0813039738

OCLC:

748330862