Quakers Living in the Lion's Mouth

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.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: Quakers Living in the LionÆs Mouth	p. 1
Friends Come to Northern Virginia	p. 8
Finding a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World	p. 38
The "Worldly Cares and Business" of Friends	p. 72
Embracing "the Oppressor as Well as the Oppressed": Quaker Antislavery before 1830	p. 106
Internal Revolutions: The Hicksite Schism and Its Consequences	p. 136
Strengthening the Bonds of Fellowship: The Domestic and Public Lives of Quaker Women	p. 170
A "Nest of Abolitionists": Antislavery Goals and Southern Identities	p. 204
"The Union Forever": Northern Virginia Quakers in the Civil War	p. 237
Epilogue: Conflicting Paths of Virtue in Nineteenth-Century America	p. 272
Notes	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 355
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