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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821912603321

Autore

Gragg Larry Dale <1950->

Titolo

The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / / Larry Gragg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8262-7188-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

289.6/7298109032

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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



challenge to slavery on Barbados -- "We are reduced to a very small number" : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados -- Epilogue.