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Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 / A. Glenn Crothers ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

By: Series: Southern dissentPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012Description: xv, 372 pages : illustration ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813039732 (acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 289.675 23 C 951
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[323]-353) and index.

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.