TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gragg,Larry Dale
TI  - The Quaker community on Barbados: challenging the culture of the planter class 
SN  - 9780826271884
AV  - F2041 .G733 2009eb
U1  - 289.6/7298109032 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Quakers
KW  - Barbados
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Community life
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Barbade
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - Communauté
KW  - Contre-culture
KW  - Propriétaires de plantations
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Quaker
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Church history
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - "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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