Quakers living in the lion's mouth the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

Select an Action

Place Hold(s)
Add to My Lists
Email
Print

Title:

Author:

Crothers, A. Glenn.

ISBN:

9780813042220

Publication Information:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 372 p. :) ill., map ;

Series:

Southern dissent

Series Title:

Southern dissent

Contents:

Prologue: Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth -- Friends Come to Northern Virginia -- Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World -- The "Worldly Cares and Business" of Friends -- Embracing "the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed" : Quaker Antislavery before 1830 -- Internal Revolutions : The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences -- Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship : The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women -- A "Nest of Abolitionists" : Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities -- "The Union Forever" : Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War -- Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America.

Subject Term:

Whites -- Virginia, Northern -- Attitudes -- History.

Religious pluralism -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Quaker women -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Antislavery movements -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Pacifism -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Dissenters -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Society of Friends -- Virginia, Northern -- History.

Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 19th century.

Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 18th century.

Geographic Term:

Virginia, Northern -- Social conditions.