The Quaker community on Barbados challenging the culture of the planter class /
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- "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.