The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America

The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America
Author: Valarie H. Ziegler
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780865547261

This book chronicles the political and intellectual development of the two major antebellum peace movements. The American Peace Society, a moderate peace group, aimed to work through the institutions of church and state to achieve peace. The New England Nonresistant Society constituted a radical group which advocated the individual's complete separation from all institutions and strict adherence to the example of Christ's life and teachings.