Author : Jay Worrall
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0809582686
The Friendly Virginians
Jay Worrall
The Friendly Virginians America S First Quakers
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The Friendly Virginians
Jay Worrall
Author : Jay Worrall
Publisher : Iberian Publishing Company
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89067479683
The Friendly Virginians by Jay Worrall Pdf
Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility
Nicholas Burton,Richard Turnbull
Author : Nicholas Burton,Richard Turnbull
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030040345
Quakers, Business and Corporate Responsibility by Nicholas Burton,Richard Turnbull Pdf
This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The contributions in this volume assess the factors that explain the success and prosperity of many Quaker businesses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, discussing the lessons learned from their disappearance from prominence. By drawing upon examples that illustrate the Quaker ethic, it also considers what so-called “Quakernomics” can contribute to contemporary responsible business theory and practice.
The Quakers, 1656–1723
Richard C. Allen,Rosemary Moore
Author : Richard C. Allen,Rosemary Moore
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271085746
The Quakers, 1656–1723 by Richard C. Allen,Rosemary Moore Pdf
This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the “Second Period” of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of the persecution Quakers faced in the first decades of the movement’s existence. The authors and special contributors explore the early growth of Quakerism, assess important developments in Quaker faith and practice, and show how Friends coped with the challenges posed by external and internal threats in the final years of the Stuart age—not only in Europe and North America but also in locations such as the Caribbean. This groundbreaking collection sheds new light on a range of subjects, including the often tense relations between Quakers and the authorities, the role of female Friends during the Second Period, the effect of major industrial development on Quakerism, and comparisons between founder George Fox and the younger generation of Quakers, such as Robert Barclay, George Keith, and William Penn. Accessible, well-researched, and seamlessly comprehensive, The Quakers, 1656–1723 promises to reinvigorate a conversation largely ignored by scholarship over the last century and to become the definitive work on this important era in Quaker history. In addition to the authors, the contributors are Erin Bell, Raymond Brown, J. William Frost, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Robynne Rogers Healey, Alan P. F. Sell, and George Southcombe.
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth
A. Glenn Crothers
Author : A. Glenn Crothers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813042220
Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth by A. Glenn Crothers Pdf
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 on a daily basis. 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 increasingly to the Deep South for its cultural values and social and economic ties. Although this is an examination of a small community over time, 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 most 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 as well as the diversity of viewpoints among anti-slavery activists.
The Worlds of William Penn
Andrew R. Murphy,John Smolenski
Author : Andrew R. Murphy,John Smolenski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978801783
The Worlds of William Penn by Andrew R. Murphy,John Smolenski Pdf
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contributors analyze the worlds that shaped Penn and the worlds that he shaped: Irish, English, American, Quaker, and imperial. The eighteen chapters in The Worlds of William Penn shed critical new light on Penn’s life and legacy, examining his early and often-overlooked time in Ireland; the literary, political, and theological legacies of his public career during the Restoration and after the 1688 Revolution; his role as proprietor of Pennsylvania; his religious leadership in the Quaker movement, and as a loyal lieutenant to George Fox, and his important role in the broader British imperial project. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death the time is right for this examination of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious liberty
An African Republic
Marie Tyler-McGraw
Author : Marie Tyler-McGraw
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807867780
An African Republic by Marie Tyler-McGraw Pdf
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants. In An African Republic, Marie Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization, from revolutionary-era efforts at emancipation legislation to African American churches' concern for African missions. In Virginia, African colonization attracted aging revolutionaries, republican mothers and their daughters, bondpersons schooled and emancipated for Liberia, evangelical planters and merchants, urban free blacks, opportunistic politicians, Quakers, and gentlemen novelists. An African Republic follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw carefully examines the tensions between racial identities, domestic visions, and republican citizenship in Virginia and Liberia.
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
Marcus Rediker
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807035931
The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker Pdf
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to slavery, often performing colorful guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He drew on his ideals to create a revolutionary way of life, one that embodied the proclamation “no justice, no peace.” Lay was born in 1682 in Essex, England. His philosophies, employments, and places of residence—spanning England, Barbados, Philadelphia, and the open seas—were markedly diverse over the course of his life. He worked as a shepherd, glove maker, sailor, and bookseller. His worldview was an astonishing combination of Quakerism, vegetarianism, animal rights, opposition to the death penalty, and abolitionism. While in Abington, Philadelphia, Lay lived in a cave-like dwelling surrounded by a library of two hundred books, and it was in this unconventional abode where he penned a fiery and controversial book against bondage, which Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. Always in motion and ever confrontational, Lay maintained throughout his life a steadfast opposition to slavery and a fierce determination to make his fellow Quakers denounce it, which they finally began to do toward the end of his life. With passion and historical rigor, Rediker situates Lay as a man who fervently embodied the ideals of democracy and equality as he practiced a unique concoction of radicalism nearly three hundred years ago. Rediker resurrects this forceful and prescient visionary, who speaks to us across the ages and whose innovative approach to activism is a gift, transforming how we consider the past and how we might imagine the future.
In the Neatest Manner
Kimberly Smith Ivey
Author : Kimberly Smith Ivey
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0879352027
In the Neatest Manner by Kimberly Smith Ivey Pdf
This book was prepared in conjunction with the exhibit Virginia Samplers: Young Ladies and Their Needle Wisdom, 10/31/1997-09/08/1998, at the DeWitt Wallace Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA.
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia
Edward L. Bond
Author : Edward L. Bond
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0739107216
Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia by Edward L. Bond Pdf
Edward L. Bond offers a reappraisal of religion's place in the colonies, fully chronicling as well as contextualizing the practice of religion and church activities in early America. The addition of previously unpublished and largely unexamined sermons shapes a picture of colonial Virginia's religious environment that is unparalleled in both depth and scope The book vastly enriches our appreciation not only of the texts, but also of their writers and the important role these clergymen played in shaping the young nation.
Let this Voice be Heard
Maurice Jackson
Author : Maurice Jackson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812221268
Let this Voice be Heard by Maurice Jackson Pdf
In the first intellectual biography of the man universally recognized in his own time as the founder of the Atlantic antislavery movement, Jackson demonstrates how Anthony Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, African travel narratives, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique.
From Jamestown to Jefferson
Paul Rasor,Richard E. Bond
Author : Paul Rasor,Richard E. Bond
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813931180
From Jamestown to Jefferson by Paul Rasor,Richard E. Bond Pdf
From Jamestown to Jefferson sheds new light on the contexts surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom—and on the emergence of the American understanding of religious freedom—by examining its deep roots in colonial Virginia’s remarkable religious diversity. Challenging traditional assumptions about life in early Virginia, the essays in this volume show that the colony was more religious, more diverse, and more tolerant than commonly supposed. The presence of groups as disparate as Quakers, African and African American slaves, and Presbyterians, alongside the established Anglicans, generated a dynamic tension between religious diversity and attempts at hegemonic authority that was apparent from Virginia’s earliest days. The contributors, all renowned scholars of Virginia history, treat in detail the complex interactions among Virginia’s varied religious groups, both in and out of power, as well as the seismic changes unleashed by the Statute’s adoption in 1786. From Jamestown to Jefferson suggests that the daily religious practices and struggles that took place in the town halls, backwoods settlements, plantation houses, and slave quarters that dotted the colonial Virginia landscape helped create a social and political space within which a new understanding of religious freedom, represented by Jefferson’s Statute, could emerge. Contributors:Edward L. Bond, Alabama A&M University * Richard E. Bond, Virginia Wesleyan College * Thomas E. Buckley, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University/Graduate Theological Union * Daniel L. Dreisbach, American University, School of Public Affairs * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * Monica Najar, Lehigh University * Paul Rasor, Virginia Wesleyan College * Brent Tarter, Library of Virginia
Deliver Us from Evil
Lacy K. Ford
Author : Lacy K. Ford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199723034
Deliver Us from Evil by Lacy K. Ford Pdf
A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including newspapers, government documents, legislative records, pamphlets, and speeches, Lacy K. Ford recaptures the varied and sometimes contradictory ideas and attitudes held by groups of white southerners as they tried to square slavery with their democratic ideals. He excels at conveying the political, intellectual, economic, and social thought of leading white southerners, vividly recreating the mental world of the varied actors and capturing the vigorous debates over slavery. He also shows that there was not one antebellum South but many, and not one southern white mindset but several, with the debates over slavery in the upper South quite different in substance from those in the deep South. In the upper South, where tobacco had fallen into comparative decline by 1800, debate often centered on how the area might reduce its dependence on slave labor and "whiten" itself, whether through gradual emancipation and colonization or the sale of slaves to the cotton South. During the same years, the lower South swirled into the vortex of the "cotton revolution," and that area's whites lost all interest in emancipation, no matter how gradual or fully compensated. An ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly insightful book, Deliver Us from Evil makes an important contribution to the history of slavery in the United States, shedding needed light on the white South's early struggle to reconcile slavery with its Revolutionary heritage.
Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers)
Margery Post Abbott
Author : Margery Post Abbott
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810870888
Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) by Margery Post Abbott Pdf
The modern reputation of Friends in the United States and Europe is grounded in the relief work they have conducted in the presence and aftermath of war. Friends (also known as Quakers) have coordinated the feeding and evacuation of children from war zones around the world. They have helped displaced persons without regard to politics. They have engaged in the relief of suffering in places as far-flung as Ireland, France, Germany, Ethiopia, Egypt, China, and India. Their work was acknowledged with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Service Council of Great Britain. More often, however, Quakers live, worship, and work quietly, without seeking public attention for themselves. Now, the Friends are a truly worldwide body and are recognized by their Christ-centered message of integrity and simplicity, as well as their nonviolent stance and affirmation of the belief that all people—women as well as men—may be called to the ministry. The expanded second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) relates the history of the Friends through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. This book is an excellent access point for scholars and students, who will find the overviews and sources for further research provided by this book to be enormously helpful.
Shenandoah Religion
Stephen L. Longenecker
Author : Stephen L. Longenecker
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780918954831
Shenandoah Religion by Stephen L. Longenecker Pdf
By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven. Calling worldliness the "mainstream" and otherworldliness, "outsidernesss," Shenandoah Religion describes the transition certain denominations made in becoming mainstream and the resistance of others in maintaining distinctive dress, manners, social relations, economics, and apolitical viewpoints.