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Quakers living in the lion's mouth : the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

Title
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.
Author
Crothers, A. Glenn.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.

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Description
xv, 372 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Southern dissent
Uniform Title
Southern dissent.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.[323]-353) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 12-794
ISBN
  • 9780813039732 (acid-free paper)
  • 0813039738 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
2012001005
OCLC
748330862
Author
Crothers, A. Glenn.
Title
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.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Series
Southern dissent
Southern dissent.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p.[323]-353) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 12-794
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