(PEACE) Garrison William Lloyd et al Declaration of Sentimen

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(PEACE.) Garrison, William Lloyd, et al. Declaration of Sentiments, Adopted by the Peace Convention Held in Boston. Lithograph broadside, 32 x 21 1/2 inches, rolled and mounted on early wooden spindles; minor wear, just a bit of dampstaining in right margin, fragments of green ribbon on verso. Boston: T. Moore, [1838]

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This declaration was written by the great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and signed by 36 others--many of them women, many of them Quakers. It launched a pacifist movement which drew upon some of the same members as the larger antislavery movement. "Garrison's declaration so strongly and eloquently professed a faith of such importance to men that one would have expected it to make a strong impression, to be known the world over . . . but even to Americans who esteem Garrison's memory highly that declaration is almost unknown"--Leo Tolstoy, "The Kingdom of God is Within You." Shaw & Shoemaker 52169. One copy in OCLC, and none known at auction.