Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth
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Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth

The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

  1. 391 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth

The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

About this book

This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values on a daily basis.

By tracing the evolution of white Virginians' attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked increasingly to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties.

Although this is an examination of a small community over time, the work deals with larger historical issues, such as how religious values are formed and evolve among a group and how these beliefs shape behavior even in the face of increasing hostility and isolation.

As one of the most thorough studies of a pre–Civil War southern religious community of any kind, Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth provides a fresh understanding of the diversity of southern culture as well as the diversity of viewpoints among anti-slavery activists.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue: Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth
  10. 1. Friends Come to Northern Virginia
  11. 2. Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World
  12. 3. The “Worldly Cares and Business” of Friends
  13. 4. Embracing “the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed”: Quaker Antislavery before 1830
  14. 5. Internal Revolutions: The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences
  15. 6. Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship: The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women
  16. 7. A “Nest of Abolitionists”: Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities
  17. 8. “The Union Forever”: Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War
  18. Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index