The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / / Larry Gragg
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| Autore: |
Gragg Larry Dale <1950->
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| Titolo: |
The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / / Larry Gragg
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 289.6/7298109032 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Barbados History 17th century |
| Barbados Social conditions 17th century | |
| Barbados Church history | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Quaker community on Barbados |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-7188-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821912603321 |
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