The Quaker community on Barbados challenging the culture of the planter class - Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950- (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2009)
"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.
"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.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Quakers -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Community life -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Counterculture -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Slavery -- History -- Barbados -- 17th century; Plantation owners -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Social conflict -- Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Barbados -- History -- 17th century; Barbados -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Barbados -- Church history; RELIGION -- Christianity -- Quaker; Electronic books