Title Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 / A. Glenn Crothers

Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (372 pages) Series Southern Dissent Southern dissent. Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Quakers living in the lion's mouth; 1. Friends come to Northern Virginia; 2. Finding a path of virtue in a revolutionary world; 3. The "worldly cares and business" of friends; 4. Embracing "the oppressor as well as the oppressed": quaker antislavery before 1830; 5. Internal revolutions: the hicksite schism and Its consequences; 6. Strengthening the bonds of fellowship: the domestic and public lives of Quaker women 7. A "nest of abolitionists": antislavery goals and southern identities8. "The union forever": Northern Virginia quakers in the Civil War; Epilogue: conflicting paths of virtue in Nineteenth-Century America; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cult Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 18th century Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 19th century Society of Friends -- Virginia, Northern -- History Dissenters -- Virginia, Northern -- History Pacifism -- Virginia, Northern -- History Antislavery movements -- Virginia, Northern -- History Quaker women -- Virginia, Northern -- History Religious pluralism -- Virginia, Northern -- History White people -- Virginia, Northern -- Attitudes -- History RELIGION -- Christianity -- Quaker. Antislavery movements Dissenters Pacifism Quaker women Quakers Religious pluralism Social conditions Society of Friends White people -- Attitudes SUBJECT Virginia, Northern -- Social conditions Subject Northern Virginia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813042220 0813042224 9780813043142 081304314X

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