New England Non-Resistance Society: Difference between revisions

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&pg=PA120&dq=%22New+England+Non-Resistance+Society%22&ei=ANStSqPaFoa6zAT9mN3rBA#v=onepage&q=%22New%20England%20Non-Resistance%20Society%22&f=false 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>

 

 

Among the members were [[Adin Ballou]], [[Amos Bronson Alcott]], [[Maria Weston Chapman]], [[Stephen Symonds Foster]], [[Abby Kelley]], [[Samuel May]], [[Parker Pillsbury]], and [[Henry C. Wright]].{{cn|date=April 2015}}