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Gragg Larry Dale <1950-> |
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The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / / Larry Gragg |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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 |
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