Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 (Southern Dissent)

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“A tremendous contribution to our understanding of the American South and the history of American religion and reform.”–Dee E. Andrews, writer of The Methodists and Revolutionary The united states, 1760-1800

“A model study of an antislavery, reformist minority looking for its place in the Antebellum South.”–Thomas D. Hamm, writer of The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907

This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia, between its first settlement in 1730 and the end of the Civil War, explores how an antislavery, pacifist, and equalitarian religious minority maintained its ideals and campaigned for social justice in a society that violated those values each day. 
    
By tracing the evolution of white Virginians’ attitudes toward the Quaker community, Glenn Crothers exposes the increasing hostility Quakers faced as the sectional crisis deepened, revealing how a border region like northern Virginia looked more and more to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties.
    
Although that is an examination of a small community over the years, the work deals with larger historical issues, such as how religious values are formed and evolve among a group and how these beliefs shape behavior even in the face of increasing hostility and isolation.
    
As one of the thorough studies of a pre–Civil War southern religious community of any kind, Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth provides a fresh understanding of the diversity of southern culture in addition to the diversity of viewpoints among anti-slavery activists.

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