The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class /
Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / Larry Gragg. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : map
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index.
"From darkness to light" : the emergence of the Society of Friends in England -- "A little England" : the development of Barbados as England's most prosperous colony -- "Many people convinced" : establishing the Quaker community on Barbados -- "Amongst them called Quakers in this island" : the people attracted to the Quaker community -- "Kept in the heavenly awe of God" : the creation of a Quaker counter-culture on Barbados -- "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 -- "Thou hast no right to reign over their conscience in matters of worship of the living God" : the Quaker challenge to slavery on Barbados -- "We are reduced to a very small number" : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados -- Epilogue.
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"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
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Quakers--History--Barbados--17th century.
Community life--History--Barbados--17th century.
Counterculture--History--Barbados--17th century.
Slavery--History--Barbados--17th century.
Plantation owners--History--Barbados--17th century.
Social conflict--History--Barbados--17th century.
Quakers--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Communauté--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Contre-culture--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Propriétaires de plantations--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
RELIGION--Christianity--Quaker.
Community life.
Counterculture.
Plantation owners.
Quakers.
Slavery.
Social conflict.
Social conditions
Barbados--History--17th century.
Barbados--Social conditions--17th century.
Barbados--Church history.
Barbade--Histoire--17e siècle.
Barbade--Conditions sociales--17e siècle.
Barbade--Histoire religieuse.
Barbados.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
F2041 / .G733 2009eb
289.6/7298109032
The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class / Larry Gragg. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : map
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index.
"From darkness to light" : the emergence of the Society of Friends in England -- "A little England" : the development of Barbados as England's most prosperous colony -- "Many people convinced" : establishing the Quaker community on Barbados -- "Amongst them called Quakers in this island" : the people attracted to the Quaker community -- "Kept in the heavenly awe of God" : the creation of a Quaker counter-culture on Barbados -- "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 -- "Thou hast no right to reign over their conscience in matters of worship of the living God" : the Quaker challenge to slavery on Barbados -- "We are reduced to a very small number" : the decline of the Quaker community on Barbados -- Epilogue.
Use copy
"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
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780826271884 (electronic bk.) 082627188X (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
2009004942
1600-1699
Quakers--History--Barbados--17th century.
Community life--History--Barbados--17th century.
Counterculture--History--Barbados--17th century.
Slavery--History--Barbados--17th century.
Plantation owners--History--Barbados--17th century.
Social conflict--History--Barbados--17th century.
Quakers--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Communauté--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Contre-culture--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
Propriétaires de plantations--Histoire--Barbade--17e siècle.
RELIGION--Christianity--Quaker.
Community life.
Counterculture.
Plantation owners.
Quakers.
Slavery.
Social conflict.
Social conditions
Barbados--History--17th century.
Barbados--Social conditions--17th century.
Barbados--Church history.
Barbade--Histoire--17e siècle.
Barbade--Conditions sociales--17e siècle.
Barbade--Histoire religieuse.
Barbados.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
F2041 / .G733 2009eb
289.6/7298109032