Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830

Robynne Rogers Healey is Professor of History and Codirector of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. She is the author of From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community Among Yonge Street Friends, 1801–1850, and the coauthor of Quaker Studies: An Overview; The Current State of the Field.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRobynne Rogers HealeyPart 1: Unique Quaker Testimonies and Practices1. “Our Dear Friend Has Departed This Life”: Memorial Testimony Writing in the Long Eighteenth CenturyErica Canela and Robynne Rogers Healey2. “Within the Bounds of Their Circumstances”: The Testimony of Inequality Among Eighteenth-Century New England FriendsElizabeth Cazden3. Friendly Advice: The Making and Shaping of Quaker DisciplineAndrew Fincham4. Three Methods of Worship in Eighteenth-Century QuakerismJon MitchellPart 2: Tensions Between Quakerism in Community and Quakerism in the World5. “Mrs. Weaver Being a Quaker, Would Not Swear”: Representations of Quakers and Crime in the Metropolis, ca. 1696-1815Erin Bell6. Quakers and Marriage Legislation in England in the Long Eighteenth CenturyRosalind Johnson7. Family Unity, and Identity Formation: Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community BuildingEmma Lapsansky-WernerPart 3: Expressions of Quakerism Around the Atlantic World8. Quakers, Indigenous Americans, and the Landscape of PeaceGeoffrey Plank9. A Complex Faith: Strategies of Marriage, Family, and Community Among Upper Canadian Quakers, 1784-1830Sydney Harker and Robynne Rogers Healey10. Industrial Development and Community Responsibility: The Harford Family and South Wales, ca. 1768-1842Richard C. AllenConclusionRobynne Rogers HealeySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“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