A People among Peoples: Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America

Sydney V. James

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A People among Peoples

Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America

Sydney V. James

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1963

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Volume 1 | Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xiii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
I. THE QUAKER RELIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
II. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF "CHARITY" AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
III. MUTUAL AID IN THE MONTHLY MEETING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
IV. CHARITY IN EDUCATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	60
V. CHARITY AMONG MEETINGS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
VI. CHARITY TO NEIGHBORS OUTSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
VII. CHARITY AND THE NEGRO SLAVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
VIII. THE VICTORY OF ABOLITIONIST PRINCIPLES AMONG FRIENDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
IX. GOVERNMENT, BENEVOLENCE, AND THE QUAKER REVIVAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Χ. COPING WITH THE CRISIS OF 1755 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
XI. PRIVATE SOCIETIES TO DO GOOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
XII. JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
XIII. AMERICAN QUAKERS AND SOCIAL SERVICE DURING THE REVOLUTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	240
XIV. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
XV. THE FIRST FLOWERING OF HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	286
XVI. HUMANITARIANISM AMONG FRIENDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
SOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399

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eBook published on:

October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674184718

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1963

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674184701

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Reprint 2014

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15

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405

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674184718

eBook ISBN: 9780674184718

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674184701

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Society of Friends -- Charities.

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