List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Author’s Note: Dating System of the Religious Society of Friends
Introduction: Practical Friends
Part 1: Seed Time
1. “Inward and Outward Consolation”: Quaker Piety
2. “To Cultivate Tender Minds”: Educating Children
3. “The Solemn Close”: Rituals of Death
Part 2: Fruitless Exercise and Distress
4. “A Dividing and Separating Spirit”: The Hicksite Schism
5. “Contentions, Divisions, and Subdivisions”: Gurneyites v. Wilburites
6. “Practical Righteousness”: Reforming Friends
Part 3: A Work of Redemption
7. “In the Advancement of Piety”: Quaker Manuscript and Print Culture
8. “Tokens of Remembrance”: Friends, Memory, and History
Conclusion: American Quakerisms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
