The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class : Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

x, 192 p

"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

Includes bibliographical references and index

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