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Some of the eighteenth-century Quakers in northeast Norfolk were well-known among Quakers nationally in their time. Others were known regionally, and locally, leaving few printed records of their experiences. This book argues that it is important to restore at least some of these men and women to their places in history. In order to provide a wider base from which to make reassessments about the nature of eighteenth-century Quakerism, and its religious influences, one must learn about the lesser known members. The book uses a local study to investigate the ways in which, within their local and

Quakers -- England -- Norfolk -- History -- 17th century. --- Society of Friends -- England -- Norfolk -- History -- 17th century. --- Quakers --- Society of Friends --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Quakerism --- Religious Society of Friends --- Christian sects --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- History

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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 fo

Whites --- Religious pluralism --- Quaker women --- Antislavery movements --- Pacifism --- Dissenters --- Society of Friends --- Quakers --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- Friends --- Friends (Quakers) --- White people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Quakerism --- Religious Society of Friends --- Christian sects --- Peace --- Sociology, Military --- Evil, Non-resistance to --- Nonviolence --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- Women, Friend --- Women, Quaker --- Christian women --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Slavery --- Human rights movements --- Attitudes --- History. --- History --- Virginia, Northern --- Northern Virginia --- Social conditions.