A People among Peoples : Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America / Sydney V. James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Sydney V., author.

Series:

Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Friends--Charities.

Society of Friends.

Local Subjects:

Society of Friends--Charities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

I. THE QUAKER RELIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

II. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF "CHARITY" AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS

III. MUTUAL AID IN THE MONTHLY MEETING

IV. CHARITY IN EDUCATION

V. CHARITY AMONG MEETINGS

VI. CHARITY TO NEIGHBORS OUTSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP

VII. CHARITY AND THE NEGRO SLAVE

VIII. THE VICTORY OF ABOLITIONIST PRINCIPLES AMONG FRIENDS

IX. GOVERNMENT, BENEVOLENCE, AND THE QUAKER REVIVAL

Χ. COPING WITH THE CRISIS OF 1755

XI. PRIVATE SOCIETIES TO DO GOOD

XII. JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO

XIII. AMERICAN QUAKERS AND SOCIAL SERVICE DURING THE REVOLUTION

XIV. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

XV. THE FIRST FLOWERING OF HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS

XVI. HUMANITARIANISM AMONG FRIENDS

SOURCES

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-18471-8

OCLC:

1013955186