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Author Chenoweth, John M., author.

Title Simplicity, equality, and slavery : an archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780 / John M. Chenoweth.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Summary The author uses archaeological and archival information to reveal the everyday life of this group of Quakers residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. He traces this discreet group of mostly poor, white planters settled on Tortola in the community of Little Jost van Dyke from the earliest documented appearance in the 1740 records, through the final census--which showed only five enslaved inhabitants remaining in the community.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "In the bowels of Our Lord" -- Contexts : the history and archaeology of the British Virgin Islands and their Meeting -- "Two plantations" on the plantation : simplicity, wealth, and status -- "Furnished with convenience for a meeting house" : simplicity and meetinghouses -- Peace and weaponry on BVI Quaker sites -- Discipline, community, and conformity -- Equality, race, and slavery in BVI communities -- Reconsidering simplicity, equality, peace, and the end of the Meeting.
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Subject Quakers -- British Virgin Islands -- History -- 18th century.
Quakers.
British Virgin Islands.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Slavery -- British Virgin Islands -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery.
Plantation life -- British Virgin Islands -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation life.
Religion and sociology -- British Virgin Islands -- History -- 18th century.
Religion and sociology.
Archaeology and history -- British Virgin Islands.
Archaeology and history.
Material culture -- British Virgin Islands -- History -- 18th century.
Material culture.
British Virgin Islands -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
British Virgin Islands -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chenoweth, John M. Simplicity, equality, and slavery. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017 9781683400110 (DLC) 2016049595 (OCoLC)959592420
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