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Author:

Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 192 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

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

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

0826218474 (alk. paper)
9780826218476 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)277196213

LCCN:

2009004942

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)