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

Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : map 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL 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 RELIGION -- Christianity -- Quaker. Community life Counterculture Plantation owners Quakers Slavery Social conflict Social conditions SUBJECT Barbados -- History -- 17th century Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century Barbados -- Church history Subject Barbados Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009004942 ISBN 9780826271884 082627188X

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