The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class /

The Quaker community on Barbados : challenging the culture of the planter class /

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Author / Creator:Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
Imprint:Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
Description:x, 192 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Quakers -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Community life -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Counterculture -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Slavery -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Plantation owners -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Social conflict -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Community life.
Counterculture.
Plantation owners.
Quakers.
Slavery.
Social conflict.
Social conditions
Barbados -- History -- 17th century.
Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Barbados -- Church history.
Barbados.
Church history.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7714140
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ISBN:9780826218476 (alk. paper)
0826218474 (alk. paper)
Notes:"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 (p. 167-186) and index.

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