The Quaker community on Barbados challenging the culture of the planter class /

Main Author: Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10364847
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300 |a x, 192 p. :  |b map. 
500 |a "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. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index. 
505 0 |a "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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651 0 |a Barbados  |x Social conditions  |y 17th century. 
651 0 |a Barbados  |x Church history. 
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