A People among Peoples : : Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America / / Sydney V. James.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: James, Sydney V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- I. THE QUAKER RELIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES -- II. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF "CHARITY" AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS -- III. MUTUAL AID IN THE MONTHLY MEETING -- IV. CHARITY IN EDUCATION -- V. CHARITY AMONG MEETINGS -- VI. CHARITY TO NEIGHBORS OUTSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP -- VII. CHARITY AND THE NEGRO SLAVE -- VIII. THE VICTORY OF ABOLITIONIST PRINCIPLES AMONG FRIENDS -- IX. GOVERNMENT, BENEVOLENCE, AND THE QUAKER REVIVAL -- Χ. COPING WITH THE CRISIS OF 1755 -- XI. PRIVATE SOCIETIES TO DO GOOD -- XII. JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO -- XIII. AMERICAN QUAKERS AND SOCIAL SERVICE DURING THE REVOLUTION -- XIV. THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA -- XV. THE FIRST FLOWERING OF HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS -- XVI. HUMANITARIANISM AMONG FRIENDS -- SOURCES -- NOTES -- INDEX