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The Quakers

by Hugh Barbour, J. William Frost

Pages: 412

Contributors: Hugh Barbour,J. William Frost

Publisher: Greenwood Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1988

Subjects: Society Of Friends,Society Of Friends--United States,Quakers--United States--Biography

Table of Contents

Title Page

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Contents

Illustrations

Series Foreword

Preface

Part One the Quakers: A History of Friends in America

1: Introduction

2: The Religious Setting of the Early Friends

3: The Lamb's War and the Awakening of the North of England

4: Quaker Worship and Ethics and Their Transformation, 1652-1662

5: The Mission to America

6: England, 1660-1689

7: The Quaker Colonies

8: A Tolerated Society of Friends

9: A Spiritual Existence

10: A Disciplined Christian Life

11: Crisis and Reformation

12: The American Revolutions

13: Quaker Migrants to Carolina and the Midwest; Eastern Philanthropists

14: Separations

15: The Midcontinent in the Midcentury, 1828-1867

16: West and Midwest, 1867- 1902

17: The Liberal Transformation

18: Suburban and College Friends

19: Creativity in Peacemaking

20: Social Service and Social Change, 1902-1970

21: New Forms of Quaker Interaction, 1960-1987

Part Two a Biographical Dictionary of Former Quaker Leaders in America

Appendix: Chronology

Bibliographic Essay

Index

About the Authors

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