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(RADICALISM.) Adin Ballou. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True System of Human Society. Frontispiece portrait. 655 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear and lightly sunned; minor foxing; pencil signatures of an early owner on preliminary leaves. Hopedale, MA, 1854
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Adin Ballou (1803-1890) was a minister from Cumberland, RI whose teachings contained elements of anarchism, socialism, and pacifism; he was an active abolitionist. He founded the utopian community of Hopedale near Milford, MA in 1840, where Frederick Douglass once came to lecture. Practical Christian Socialism was one of his best-known works, and contains practical instructions for organizing a community.

The original owner of this book, Edward C. Cranston of Woonsocket, RI, was an abolitionist himself. He corresponded with his home state's prominent abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace.