Reprint of the 1896 edition published by Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, which was issued as 15 of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, extra volumes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-362) and index.
The status of dissent in the south -- The planting of Quakerism in Virginia and the Carolinas -- John Archdale and the golden age of Southern Quakerism -- The expansion of Southern Quakerism in the eighteenth century -- Quaker social life -- Quakers and the established church -- Quakers and their testimony against war -- Southern Quakers and slavery -- Southern Quakers and the settlement of the Middle West -- The decline of Southern Quakerism -- The renaissance of North Carolina yearly meeting