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The '''New England Non-Resistance Society''' was an American peace group founded at a special peace convention organized by [[William Lloyd Garrison]], in Boston in September 1838.<ref name="pb">[[Peter Brock (historian)|Peter Brock]] ''Pacifism in the United States, from the Colonial era to the First World War''. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 539-42.</ref> Leading up to the convention, conservative members of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]] and the [[American Peace Society]] expressed discomfort with Garrison's philosophy of "[[Nonresistance|non-resistance]]" and inclusion of women in public political activities. After conservative attendees opposing Garrison walked out of the convention in protest, those remaining formed the
[[File:Garrison-william-lloyd-loc.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.8|William Lloyd Garrison]]
The Society condemned the use of force in resisting evil, in war, for the death penalty, or in self-defense, renounced allegiance to human government, and because of the anti-slavery cause, favored non-union with the American South.
The New England Non-Resistance Society was one of the more radical of the many organizations founded by William Lloyd Garrison, adopting a Declaration of Sentiments of which he was the principal author, pledging themselves to deny the validity of social distinctions based on race, nationality or gender",<ref>Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers: 1815 - 1860. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997 {{ISBN|978-0-8090-0130-9}} p. 120 [https://books.google.com/books?id=cl3om9FG6V0C&dq=%22New+England+Non-Resistance+Society%22&pg=PA120 Google Books]</ref> refusing obedience to human governments, and opposing even individual acts of self-defense.<ref name=Yellin>Yellin, Jean Fagan, and John C. Van Horne. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-8014-2728-2}}</ref> In the Society's ''Declaration of Sentiments'', Garrison wrote, "any person without distinction of sex or color, who consents to the principles of this Constitution may become a member and be entitled to speak at its meetings."<ref name="pb"/> The Society rejected loyalty to any human government; one historian has described the Non-Resistance Society's "basic outlook as that of philosophical [[anarchism]]".<ref name="wor">Reichert, William O.,"The Philosophical Anarchism of Adin Ballou", ''Huntington Library Quarterly'', Vol. 27, No. 4 (August 1964), (pp. 357–374).</ref><ref>"...Ballou was a lecturer for temperance and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as president of the pacifist and Christian anarchist New England Non-Resistance Society." Calhoun, Craig. ''The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements''. University of Chicago Press, 2012 {{ISBN|0226090841}} (p. 372).</ref>
▲The Society condemned the use of force in resisting evil, in war, for the death penalty, or in self-defense, renounced allegiance to human government, and because of the anti-slavery cause, favored non-union with the American South.
The declaration was signed by 44 people, of whom 20 were women. [[
Among the members were
The Non-Resistance Society held its last meeting in 1849.<ref name="wor" />
The organization has been considered by one historian to be a "relatively exclusive vehicle of the radical [Boston] upper class"<ref>Hansen, Debra Gold. Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. Amherst: [[University of Massachusetts Press]], 1993. {{ISBN|978-0-87023-848-2}} p. 105 [https://books.google.com/books?id=MuyikbbUrc0C&dq=%22New+England+Non-Resistance+Society%22&pg=PA104 Google Books]</ref>
[[Category:Peace organizations]]▼
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
▲[[Category:Peace organizations based in the United States]]
[[Category:Anarchist organizations in the United States]]
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