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Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War

by Peter Brock
Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War

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Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well documented, there has been surprisingly little study of its long history in America's early conflicts, defined as these have been by accounts of patriotism and nation-building. In fact, during the period of conscription from the late 1650s to the end of the Civil War, many North Americans refused military service on grounds of conscience.

In this volume, Peter Brock, one of the foremost historians of American pacifism, seeks to remedy this oversight by presenting a rich and varied collection of documents, many drawn from obscure sources, that shed new light on American religious and military history. These include legal findings, church and meeting proceedings, appeals by nonconformists to government authorities, and illuminating excerpts from personal journals. These accounts contain many poignant, often painful, and sometimes even humorous episodes that offer glimpses into the lives of conscientious objectors of the era. One of the most striking features to emerge from these documents is the critical role of religion in the history of American pacifism. Brock finds that virtually all who refused military service in this period were inspired by religious convictions, with Quakers frequently the most ardent dissenters. In the antebellum period, however, the pacifist spectrum expanded to include nonsectarians such as the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the New England Non-Resistance Society. A dramatic, powerful portrait of early American pacifism, Liberty and Conscience presents not only the thought and practice of the objectors themselves, but also the response of the authorities and the general public.

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"Peter Brock's fine documentary history is a welcome addition to the scant literature on the history of conscientious objection.Brock's work makes it clear that those who refute the state in the name of transcendent values, today and in the future, are heirs to a rich historical legacy."-- Journal of the American Academy of Religion


About the Author

Peter Brock is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Pacifism from the Middle Ages to the Great War as well as many other books and articles on the history of pacifism. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and later served as a volunteer in the Anglo-American Quaker Relief Mission in postwar Poland.


Table of Contents

Part I: Colonial America

1. The First Quaker Conscientious Objectors in America, 1658

2. Rhode Island, 1673: "None to be compelled to train or fight against their consciences"

3. Witnessing to the Quaker Peace Testimony

4. Quakers and Naval Impressment

5. Conscientious Objectors in the French and Indian War

Part II: English West Indies

6. Militia "Sufferings" among Quakers

7. Alternative Service and the Quakers of Antigua

Part III: Revolutionary America

8. Quaker Militia Penalties

9. Dilemmas of a Quaker Tax and Paper Currency Objector

10. The German Peace Sects of Pennsylvania and the Draft

11. A Peace Sect Wrestles with the Problem of Hiring a Substitute

12. The Conscientious Objection of a Methodist Preacher

13. The Moravian Brethren and War

Part IV: Upper Canada

14. Legislative Exemption for Peace Sects

15. Quakers and Military Requisitions, 1810-1824

16. A Quaker Family in the War of 1812

17. Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Rural Upper Canada, 1840

Part V: The New Republic to Antebellum America

18. Continuing Quaker Witness against War, 1801-1824

19. A Quaker Petition against Militia Conscription, 1810

20. A Small-Sect Militia Objector

21. Pleas for Exemption of Nonsectarian Militia Objectors

22. William Lloyd Garrison as a Militia Objector

23. Should "Pacific Exempts" Pay Malitia Fines?

24. Nonsectarian Miltia Objectors in Jail

25. Dilemmas of Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Antebellum America

Part VI: Civil War America

26. A Garrisonian Mother and Her Draft-Age Sons

27. William Lloyd Garrison and His Son's Exemption from Military Drill at School

28. Conscript Dilemmas at the Hopedale Community

29. Draft Experiences of a Conscripted Shaker

30. The Civil War Diary of a Quaker Conscript

31. Trials of a Quaker Conscientious Objector in the Confederate Army

32. A Reluctant Conscientious Objector

33. A Consistent War-Tax Objector

34. A Monnonite Farmer Hires a Substitute

35. Brethren and Mennonites as Exiles from the Confederate Draft

36. Adventists Confront the Draft

37. A Disciple of Christ Goes the Second Mile

38. Christadelphians and the Draft


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780195151213
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
04/11/2002
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Height:
.76IN
Width:
6.28IN
Thickness:
.8 in.
LCCN:
2001036671
Number of Units:
1
Author:
Peter Brock
Editor:
Peter Brock
Author:
Peter null
Subject:
History
Subject:
Conscientious objection - United States -
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Religion and Theology | History of Christianity | American
Subject:
Theology | History of Christianity | American
Subject:
World History-General
Subject:
Religion & Theology | History of Christianity | American
Subject:
Social history
Subject:
Conscientious objection.

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