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Author Crothers, A. Glenn.

Title Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 / A. Glenn Crothers.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (372 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Southern Dissent
Southern dissent.
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Quakers living in the lion's mouth; 1. Friends come to Northern Virginia; 2. Finding a path of virtue in a revolutionary world; 3. The "worldly cares and business" of friends; 4. Embracing "the oppressor as well as the oppressed": quaker antislavery before 1830; 5. Internal revolutions: the hicksite schism and Its consequences; 6. Strengthening the bonds of fellowship: the domestic and public lives of Quaker women.
7. A "nest of abolitionists": antislavery goals and southern identities8. "The union forever": Northern Virginia quakers in the Civil War; Epilogue: conflicting paths of virtue in Nineteenth-Century America; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis. By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cult.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 18th century.
Quakers.
Northern Virginia.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Society of Friends -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Society of Friends.
Dissenters -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Dissenters.
Pacifism -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Pacifism.
Antislavery movements -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Antislavery movements.
Quaker women -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Quaker women.
Religious pluralism -- Virginia, Northern -- History.
Religious pluralism.
White people -- Virginia, Northern -- Attitudes -- History.
White people.
Virginia, Northern -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Crothers, A. Glenn. Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth : The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012 9780813039732
ISBN 9780813042220 (electronic book)
0813042224 (electronic book)
0813039738
9780813039732