December 8, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2011
Book “THE CHURCH AS IT IS: or the FORLORN HOPE OF SLAVERY” by Parker Pillsbury, Boston, A. Forbes, Printer, 1847, 96pp. octavo, with original green paper cover. It begins “No apology is offered for the following work. It is a brief exhibition of the American Church as it is, in reference to the slave system of the United States. That slavery finds its surest and sternest defence, in the prevailing religion of the country, is no longer questionable. Let it be driven from the Church, with the burning zeal of its reporbabtion and exercration stamped on its iron brow, and its fate is fixed forever. Only while its horrors are baptized and sanctified in the name of Christianity, ecan it maintain an existence. The Anti-Slavery movement has unmasked the character of the American Church. Our religion has been found at war with the interests of humanity and the laws ofGod. And it is more than time the world was awakened to its unhallowed influence on the hopes and happiness of man, while it makes itself the palladium of the foulest iniquity ever perpetrated in the sight of heaven...” Much more. Very good condition. Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898) American author and social advocate. Pillsbury's dislike of slavery led him into active writing and lecturing for the abolitionist movement and other progressive social reform issues. He became a lecturing agent for the New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and American antislavery societies, and held these posts for over two decades. He served as an emissary from the American Anti-Slavery Society to Great Britain. Pillsbury lectured widely on abolition and social reform, often in the company of fellow abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster. He earned a reputation for successfully dealing with hostile crowds through nonresistance tactics. His support for nonresistance led to service on the executive committee of the New Hampshire Non-Resistance Society. Consequently, Pillsbury was not an active supporter of the Union war effort. However, he did applaud Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and defended the actions of John Brown after the raid on Harpers Ferry. In 1865, Pillsbury broke with longtime associate William Lloyd Garrison over the need for continued activity by the American Anti-Slavery Society. He edited the National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1866. Pillsbury helped to draft the constitution of the feminist American Equal Rights Association in 1865, and served as vice-president of the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association. With feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Pillsbury served as co-editor for the women's rights newsletter The Revolution, founded in 1868.
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