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A. Glenn Crothers, “Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth” (University Press of Florida, 2012)
A. Glenn Crothers, “Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth” (University Press of Florida, 2012)
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63 minutes
Released:
Aug 27, 2013
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Deservedly or not, the members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) are often portrayed as one of history’s Good Guys. The Society was the first organized religious group to condemn slavery on moral and religious grounds. In Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865 (University Press of Florida, 2012), Glenn Crothers probes below that simple idea to study how Quakers in a slave society–a lion’s mouth –coped with the inevitable tensions. How did they deal with their slaveholding neighbors? How did those neighbors cope with Quakers who–while very nice, hardworking, and honest folk–also condemned slavery as a sin against God?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Aug 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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