1835 EARLY ATHEISM IN AMERICA. Published in the Heat of the Boston Blaspheny Trials of Abner Kneeland Presbyterian Containing Similar Extracts from Writers

Containing Similar Extracts from Writers of the Church of England

Remarkable

I feel almost ashamed making my need of rest a plea for not coming to you

Tears and folds reinforced with archival tape

M is away could you not get some student to attend to the concern

1835 EARLY ATHEISM IN AMERICA. Published in the Heat of the Boston Blaspheny Trials of Abner Kneeland Presbyterian Containing Similar Extracts from WritersA rather scarce American edition of an influential anti atheist work by Benjamin Godwin (17851871), prominent Baptist clergyman, abolitionist, and activist. A remarkable figure, he ran away to sea at the age of 15, was press ganged into the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and subsequently trained for the Baptist ministry. He became closely associated with the antislavery movement through his friendship with the abolitionist James Stephen, and