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The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class
Larry Gragg
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Hardcover. Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. This work shows that Barbados Quakers were a critical part of a transatlantic network of Friends and explains how they established a 'counterculture' on the island. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, bibliography, index, table. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; HBLH; HBTB; HBTS; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life in a slave-based economy - one where even most Quakers owned slaves. In The Quaker Community on Barbados, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England's seventeenth-century colonies. Gragg has conducted meticulous research on two continents to re-create the Barbados Quaker ... Read more
Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life in a slave-based economy - one where even most Quakers owned slaves. In The Quaker Community on Barbados, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England's seventeenth-century colonies. Gragg has conducted meticulous research on two continents to re-create the Barbados Quaker ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826218476
SKU
V9780826218476
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About Larry Gragg
Larry Gragg is Curators' Teaching Professor of History at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. His previous books include 'Englishmen Transplanted': The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660.
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