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The American Tradition

The American Tradition. Why were the Quakers in the USA unable to consolidate their ‘peaceable kingdom’?. Context: July 1656, first Quakers reach America Initial Persecution Nonviolent tactics employed 1675 Quakers ‘regularly meeting undisturbed’.

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The American Tradition

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  1. The American Tradition

  2. Why were the Quakers in the USA unable to consolidate their ‘peaceable kingdom’? Context: • July 1656, first Quakers reach America • Initial Persecution • Nonviolent tactics employed • 1675 Quakers ‘regularly meeting undisturbed’

  3. Why were the Quakers in the USA unable to consolidate their ‘peaceable kingdom’? ‘the King of the country where I live hath given unto me a great province, but I desire to enjoy it with your love and consent, that we may always live together as neighbours and friends, else what would the Great god say to us, who hath made us not to devour and destroy one another, but live soberly and kindly together in the world’. -Letter of 18th October 1681 that Penn gave the commissioners who preceded him, to read to the Indians upon their arrival

  4. Why were the Quakers in the USA unable to consolidate their ‘peaceable kingdom’? Two Schools of Thought • Idealists • Failure fault of others • Realists • Failure implicit it in its beginnings • Probably combination of the two

  5. Why is John Woolman important in the history of nonviolent resistance? • ‘the most significant figure in the early history of non-violence in the N.American colonies’ • Reformer of the Society, preventing its decline • Limited success in this respect • Forerunner in anti-slavery movement • However, posthumous success

  6. Could America have gained independence from Britain in the late 18th Century without the use of violence? • Significant non-violent successes • Reversal of Stamp Act (1765) • Boston Tea Part (1773) • Britain gave up with relatively few military defeats • However, limited support for non-violent cause…

  7. What was the significance of the William Lloyd Garrison’s Society of Non-Resistance (1838)? • Limited contemporary significance • Never more than 200 members • Garrison’s actions conflict with society’s aims • Significant posthumously • Inspired Tolstoy

  8. What is the significance of Thoreau in the history of nonviolent resistance? • Essay on Civil Disobedience (1846) • An argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state • Influences Tolstoy and Gandhi

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