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The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class

By Larry D. Gragg

Book information

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0826218474, 9780826218476
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3675260 bytes)
Edition
First
Pages
224\205
Time added
2013-07-02 06:55:52

Description

Prior to the Quakers large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox s admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life in a slave-based economy one where even most Quakers owned slaves. Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England s seventeenth-century colonies.

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