Gragg, Larry Dale,  1950- <br/><br/>
The Quaker community on Barbados  challenging the culture of the planter class /  [electronic resource] : 
Larry Gragg. 
 - Columbia :  University of Missouri Press,  c2009. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 192 p.) :  map. 
<br/><br/> "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.  Description based on print version record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-186) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826271884 (electronic bk.) 082627188X (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Quakers--History--Barbados--17th century.<br/>Community life--History--Barbados--17th century.<br/>Counterculture--History--Barbados--17th century.<br/>Slavery--History--Barbados--17th century.<br/>Plantation owners--History--Barbados--17th century.<br/>Social conflict--History--Barbados--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Barbados--History--17th century.<br/>Barbados--Social conditions--17th century.<br/>Barbados--Church history.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F2041  / .G733 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>289.6/7298109032