TY - BOOK AU - Crothers,A.Glenn TI - Quakers living in the lion's mouth: the Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 T2 - Southern Dissent SN - 9780813042220 AV - F232.N867 .Q76 2012 U1 - 289.6755 PY - 2012/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Quakers KW - Virginia, Northern KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Society of Friends KW - Dissenters KW - Pacifism KW - Antislavery movements KW - Quaker women KW - Religious pluralism KW - Whites KW - Attitudes KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - Quaker KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker KW - Northern Virginia KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Quakers living in the lion's mouth; 1. Friends come to Northern Virginia; 2. Finding a path of virtue in a revolutionary world; 3. The "worldly cares and business" of friends; 4. Embracing "the oppressor as well as the oppressed": quaker antislavery before 1830; 5. Internal revolutions: the hicksite schism and Its consequences; 6. Strengthening the bonds of fellowship: the domestic and public lives of Quaker women; 7. A "nest of abolitionists": antislavery goals and southern identities8. "The union forever": Northern Virginia quakers in the Civil War; Epilogue: conflicting paths of virtue in Nineteenth-Century America; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - 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 cult UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10571286 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=463211 UR - http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2438506 UR - https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813039732.001.0001 UR - http://www.myilibrary.com?id=513071 UR - https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=943725 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042220/ UR - http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2438507 UR - http://VH7QX3XE2P.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=VH7QX3XE2P&S=JCs&C=TC0000678861&T=marc&tab=BOOKS UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvx07bn3 ER -