Author: Valarie H. Ziegler

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 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.