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

Published by J. Barker / Charles Gilpin, Newcastle & London, 1842

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA

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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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Title
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
Author
[PACIFISM] [ANARCHISM] WRIGHT, H[enry] C[larke] and J[oseph] Barker
Publisher
J. Barker / Charles Gilpin, Newcastle & London
Publication year
1842
Edition
First Edition.
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