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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Quakers > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Community life > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Counterculture > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Slavery > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Plantation owners > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Social conflict > Barbados > History > 17th century.
Barbados > History > 17th century.
Barbados > Social conditions > 17th century.
Barbados > Church history.
Table of Contents:
  • "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.