God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842â "1846

by Thomas D. Hamm

Growing out of the most radical fringes of the abolitionist movement, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform set out to inaugurate a new social order based on the principles of nonresistance. The Society founded eight utopian communities which, though short-lived, were the setting for the most radical questioning of antebellum American society. The members of the Society renounced all forms of coercive relationships. They attempted to live without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253329035
• ISBN13: 9780253329035
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"