biography
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| lived:
| (1778–1841)
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| biography:
| Sea captain, farmer, and pacifist, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. A sea captain turned farmer, turned abolitionist, there is no historical record of his transformation to full-time pacifism (1819). He founded new peace groups, appointing able lieutenants, and lectured and wrote peace propaganda, and was one of the first to link the goals of pacifists with those fighting for women's rights. Founding the American Peace Society (1828), he became a Congregational clergyman (1837) as a means of furthering his cause, and that same year he forced the American Peace Society to condemn all war, defensive and offensive. Developer of many techniques of pacifist propaganda, he was the first to make pacifism a political issue in America. In his Essay on a Congress of Nations (1840) he was one of the first to predict that there would someday be an international organization resembling the United Nations. |
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