The Quaker community on Barbados
Subtitle: challenging the culture of the planter class
By: Larry Gragg.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826218476
Subjects: 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; Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Barbados -- Church history
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From darkness to light : the emergence of the Society of Friends in England; title: A little England : the development of Barbados as England's most prosperous colony; title: Many people convinced : establishing the Quaker community on Barbados; title: Amongst them called Quakers in this island : the people attracted to the Quaker community; title: Kept in the heavenly awe of God : the creation of a Quaker counter-culture on Barbados; title: 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; title: Thou hast no right to reign over their conscience in matters of worship of the living God : the Quaker challenge to slavery on Barbados; title: We are reduced to a very small number : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados; title: Epilogue.