Quakers living in the lion's mouth
Subtitle: the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865
By: A. Glenn Crothers ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Series: Southern dissent
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813039732
Subjects: Dissenters; Whites; Quaker women; Pacifism; Attitudes; Religious pluralism; Social conditions; History; Society of Friends; Antislavery movements; Quakers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth; title: Friends Come to Northern Virginia; title: Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World; title: The "Worldly Cares and Business" of Friends; title: Embracing "the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed" : Quaker Antislavery before 1830; title: Internal Revolutions : The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences; title: Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship : The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women; title: A "Nest of Abolitionists" : Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities; title: "The Union Forever" : Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War; title: Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America.