Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 - Crothers, A. Glenn (Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p.[323]-353) and index.
Keywords: Quakers -- Virginia, Northern -- History -- 18th century; Virginia, Northern -- Social conditions