Pacifisme

1842 · 86607 — Newcastle & London: J. Barker / Charles Gilpin 1842. First Edition. 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. <br /> <br /> 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. J. Barker / Charles Gilpin unknown