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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gragg, Larry Dale, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
Subjects:
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.
Barbados > History > 17th century.
Barbados > Social conditions > 17th century.
Barbados > Church history.
Description
Item Description:"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.
Physical Description:x, 192 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-186) and index.
ISBN:9780826218476 (alk. paper)
0826218474 (alk. paper)