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 |
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Subject |
Quakers -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Community life -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Counterculture -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Slavery -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Plantation owners -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Social conflict -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Quaker.
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Community life
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Counterculture
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Plantation owners
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Quakers
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Slavery
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Social conflict
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Barbados -- History -- 17th century
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Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century
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Barbados -- Church history
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Barbados
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Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2009004942 |
ISBN |
9780826271884 |
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082627188X |
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