Non-Resistance. In Two Letters, the first from H.C. Wright, of America, and the Second from J. Barker, of England, with an Appendix, Containing Answers to Questions on the Subject

[PACIFISM] [ANARCHISM] WRIGHT, H[enry] C[larke] and J[oseph] Barker

Edité par J. Barker / Charles Gilpin, Newcastle & London, 1842

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First impression. Penny pamphlet, 19cm x 12cm. Sewn self-wrappers; 24pp. Sewing perished; mild wear at corners; still complete and Very Good. Publisher's imprint printed vertically at bound edge of first page of text. A tract on pacifist non-resistance, with strong anti-statist content - a clear presentation of the proto-anarchist Christianity of militant pacifist-abolitionists of the era, of which Wright and Barker were exemplars. Wright (1797-1870), a defrocked Presbyterian minister, would become one of the most radical American voices for abolitionism and pacifism in the years before the Civil War, even being ejected from the American Anti-Slavery Society for espousing too radical an abolitionist viewpoint. Joseph Barker (1806-1875), a British controvertialist clergyman who, like Wright, had been rejected by his denomination, was in many ways Wright's analogue in Great Britain, espousing a militant interpretation of Christ's teachings that repudiated all entities that survived upon compulsion of their members - including enslavement, marriage, most religion, and government itself. Barker would later relocate to the United States, where he became a leader of the abolitionist cause in Ohio before returning to England just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The present pamphlet very scarce; not traced in commerce, with only five physical holdings noted in OCLC.

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• Titre: Non-Resistance. In Two Letters, the first from H.C. Wright, of America, and the Second from J. Barker, of England, with an Appendix, Containing Answers to Questions on the Subject
• Éditeur: J. Barker / Charles Gilpin, Newcastle & London
• Date de parution: 1842
• Édition: First Edition.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Pacifist & Anti-War Movements
  • Anarchism
  • Radical & Proletarian Literature