Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth 1 1. Friends Come to Northern Virginia 8 2. Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World 38 3. The “Worldly Cares and Business” of Friends 72 4. Embracing “the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed”: Quaker Antislavery before 1830 106 5. Internal Revolutions: The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences 136 6. Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship: The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women 170 7. A “Nest of Abolitionists”: Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities 204 8. “The Union Forever”: Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War 237 Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America 272 Notes 279 Bibliography 323 Index 355 ...