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Simplicity, equality, and slavery an archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780
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Simplicity, equality, and slavery [electronic resource] : an archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 1740-1780 / John M. Chenoweth.
ISBN
9781683400165
168340016X
9781683400110 (cloth)
Published
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm).
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Summary
The author uses archaeological and archival information to reveal the everyday life of this group of Quakers residing in the British Virgin Islands between 1741 and 1763. He traces this discreet group of mostly poor, white planters settled on Tortola in the community of Little Jost van Dyke from the earliest documented appearance in the 1740 records, through the final census--which showed only five enslaved inhabitants remaining in the community.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2017 Complete.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 16, 2017
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "In the bowels of Our Lord"
Contexts : the history and archaeology of the British Virgin Islands and their Meeting
"Two plantations" on the plantation : simplicity, wealth, and status
"Furnished with convenience for a meeting house" : simplicity and meetinghouses
Peace and weaponry on BVI Quaker sites
Discipline, community, and conformity
Equality, race, and slavery in BVI communities
Reconsidering simplicity, equality, peace, and the end of the Meeting.
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