John A. Collins (abolitionist)
John Anderson Collins (1810โ1890) was an American abolitionist.
Biography
Collins was born in Manchester, Vermont. He attended
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (MASS, founded 1835), a Boston branch of the American Anti-Slavery Society
.
He helped to mentor Frederick Douglass as Douglass began to become a speaker on the abolitionist circuit.
A
non-resistance
lines.
Collins was the editor of the abolitionist periodicals The Monthly Offering and Monthly Garland.
He combined
Fourierist socialist experimental community, and edited The Communitist. Upon the failure of this community, he renounced socialist principles as "false in theory and pernicious in their practical tendencies."[4]
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He left for California in 1849 to follow the gold rush, and became a
free thinkers.[3]: 77 He would also serve in leadership roles with the National Cooperative Homestead Society and the Society of Progressive Spiritualists.[6]
References
- ^ Filler, Louis (1960). The crusade against slavery, 1830-1860. Harper.
- ISBN 9780313331442.
- ^ LCCN 85-27252.
- ^ a b c Johnson, David Alan. Founding the Far West.
- ISBN 9780674186590.
- LCCN 98-28286.
Further reading
- Hamm, Thomas D. (1996). God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842โ1846. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-32903-5.
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