| Portion of title |
Quakers, Native Americans, and settler colonialism |
| Contents |
Introduction. Quaker settler-colonialism: its disastrous impacts on American Indians -- 1. Quaker and Lenape peacemaking in the 1700s: what Quakers didn't hear -- 2. Quaker governance: peace, politeness, or politics? -- 3. The failure of the Pennsylvania government: the Conestoga massacres -- 4. The subversive effects of colonial ideology: early Quaker attitudes toward American Indians -- 5. Quaker beliefs, colonialism, and American Indian education: contributing to cultural genocide -- 6. The universality of peacemaking: hope for social justice? -- 7. A feeling of rightness: Quaker/Indigenous relations, past, present, and future. |
| Abstract |
"Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021041173 |
| ISBN | 9780816544097 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0816544093 hardcover |
