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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.
- Southern dissent
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Dissenters--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Dissenters.
- Pacifism--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Pacifism.
- Quaker women--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Quaker women.
- Quakers--Virginia, Northern--History--18th century.
- Quakers.
- Quakers--Virginia, Northern--History--19th century.
- Religious pluralism--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Religious pluralism.
- Society of Friends--Virginia, Northern--History.
- Society of Friends.
- White people--Virginia, Northern--Attitudes--History.
- White people.
- Virginia, Northern--Social conditions.
- Virginia, Northern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community, 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 fo
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4314-X
- 0-8130-4222-4
- OCLC:
- 796384800
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