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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining transatlantic Quakerism in the eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with worldly affairs.
Trade Review“Quakerism in the Atlantic World makes an invaluable contribution to Quaker history and scholarship, both in its own right and as a catalyst for further exploration and analysis of Quakerism during this period. At the very end of the book, Healey states that, for the contributors, what was perhaps most important, was opening up space for future research and dialogue. The collection certainly seems to meet that objective, and in time, it will no doubt be recognised as a book that stimulated the work of a new generation of scholars, and inaugurated a thorough-going reappraisal of Quakerism during the long eighteenth century.”
—Stuart Masters Journal of the Friends Historical Society
“This book will become a central work for a period of Quaker history that has lacked a comprehensive history to date.”
—Thomas Hamm,author of The Quakers in America
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Robynne Rogers Healey
Part 1: Unique Quaker Testimonies and Practices
1. “Our Dear Friend Has Departed This Life”: Memorial Testimony Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Erica Canela and Robynne Rogers Healey
2. “Within the Bounds of Their Circumstances”: The Testimony of Inequality Among Eighteenth-Century New England Friends
Elizabeth Cazden
3. Friendly Advice: The Making and Shaping of Quaker Discipline
Andrew Fincham
4. Three Methods of Worship in Eighteenth-Century Quakerism
Jon Mitchell
Part 2: Tensions Between Quakerism in Community and Quakerism in the World
5. “Mrs. Weaver Being a Quaker, Would Not Swear”: Representations of Quakers and Crime in the Metropolis, ca. 1696-1815
Erin Bell
6. Quakers and Marriage Legislation in England in the Long Eighteenth Century
Rosalind Johnson
7. Family Unity, and Identity Formation: Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community Building
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Part 3: Expressions of Quakerism Around the Atlantic World
8. Quakers, Indigenous Americans, and the Landscape of Peace
Geoffrey Plank
9. A Complex Faith: Strategies of Marriage, Family, and Community Among Upper Canadian Quakers, 1784-1830
Sydney Harker and Robynne Rogers Healey
10. Industrial Development and Community Responsibility: The Harford Family and South Wales, ca. 1768-1842
Richard C. Allen
Conclusion
Robynne Rogers Healey
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
