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List of Maps and Tables |
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Acknowledgments |
9 |
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| 1. |
Introduction: The Origins of Exeter Monthly Meeting |
15 |
| 2. |
A Land of Diversity and Contention: The Religious
Environment of Eighteenth-Century Berks County, Pennsylvania |
28 |
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Maintaining "Ye Establish'd Order Amongst Us": Religious Discipline and Exeter Monthly Meeting |
47 |
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War and the Frontier Friends: Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Seven Years' War |
64 |
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A Crisis of Allegiance: Berks County Quakers and the War for Independence |
77 |
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The Quaker Ethic: The Economic Activity of Berks County Quakers |
92 |
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"A Restless Desire": Geographic Mobility and Exeter Friends |
112 |
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"To Start Instructing Young Friends at the Tenderest Age": The Concern for the Education of Youth |
128 |
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"Said Slave Be Suitable for Liberty": The Abolition of Slavery and Exeter Monthly Meeting |
138 |
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Men and Women of High Morals: Exeter Monthly Meeting and the Outside World |
150 |
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Conclusion: The Contraction and Decline of Exeter Monthly Meeting |
165 |
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Appendix 1. Leaders of Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1725-1789 |
173 |
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Appendix 2. Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List-1750 |
176 |
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1750 Appendix 3. Exeter Monthly Meeting Membership List-I775 |
179 |
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Notes |
184 |
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Bibliography |
211 |
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Index |
241 |
