(RELIGION) Kneeland Abner An Introduction to the Defence of

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(RELIGION.) Kneeland, Abner. An Introduction to the Defence of Abner Kneeland, Charged with Blasphemy before the Municipal Court bound with Andrew Dunlap's Speech of Abner Kneeland Delivered before the Supreme Court and Speech of Abner Kneeland Delivered before the Full Bench of Judges. 43, 132, 32, 44, [3] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, worn; foxing, minor dampstaining. Boston, 1834-36

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Kneeland, a vocal atheist freethinker who published the Boston Investigator, is believed to be the last man convicted of blasphemy in the United States. Here is his defense, as written and published by him. Shaw & Shoemaker 25237, 24236, 25239, 38415.