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"The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia lived amid a fascinating series of tensions: its members were Quakers and Virginians; self-conscious counterculturalists and successful businessmen; upholders of an antislavery testimony in a slave state and moderates opposed to radical measures; pacifists and Unionists; respected members of their communities who were reviled by their neighbors in times of crisis and war. Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth tells their story from the Seven Years' War through the Civil War, and this deeply researched book will be of interest to a wide variety of…mehr

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"The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia lived amid a fascinating series of tensions: its members were Quakers and Virginians; self-conscious counterculturalists and successful businessmen; upholders of an antislavery testimony in a slave state and moderates opposed to radical measures; pacifists and Unionists; respected members of their communities who were reviled by their neighbors in times of crisis and war. Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth tells their story from the Seven Years' War through the Civil War, and this deeply researched book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers."--Jonathan D. Sassi, College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center "A major contribution to our understanding of the American South and the history of American religion and reform."--Dee E. Andrews, author of The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800 "A model study of an antislavery, reformist minority trying to find its place in the Antebellum South."--Thomas D. Hamm, author of The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 This examination of a Quaker community in northern Virginia 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 from its settlement in 1730 through the end of the Civil War, 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 the evolving nature of southern identity, 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. A. Glenn Crothers, associate professor of history at the University of Louisville, is director of research at The Filson Historical Society and coeditor of Ohio Valley History.
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A. Glenn Crothers, associate professor of history at the University of Louisville, is director of research at The Filson Historical Society and coeditor of Ohio Valley History.