Abstract
The Atlantic world relied on networks: religious and political networks, such as those discussed in chapters 1–3, and represented by ministers Thomas Chalkey, William Ellis, Aaron Atkinson, and Thomas Turner, as well as Marylanders Samuel Galloway, Samuel Chew, Richard Johns, and Nehemiah Birkhead, aboard the Josiah in 1697; business networks, as discussed in Chapter 4, represented by Josiah captain Thomas Lurting and passenger Chew; and the movement of people, as discussed in Chapter 6, and apparent in most of the passengers aboard the Josiah. These religious, political, and trade networks were integrated in the Quaker Atlantic world, with many of these networks connected to London. London’s role as an Atlantic hub gave Quakers access to gov- ernment, centres of trade, printers, and an active port. Although not the only Quakers involved in the Atlantic world, London Quakers were in a particularly strong position to oversee a dispersed community, to craft and control a religious message, and financially and strategi- cally to support colonization of new lands. Chapters 1–3 described the Quaker institutional structures of London and English Quakerism and how those structures functioned in the Atlantic world, allowing for both religious and political communication and, later, exchange among dispersed Quakers.
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Landes, J. (2015). Conclusion. In: London Quakers in the Trans-Atlantic World. Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366689_9
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