Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou: Written and Compiled by His Father

[BALLOU, Adin]

Verlag: Community Press, Hopedale, 1853

Beschreibung

First Edition. Duodecimo. Full brown blindstamped cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, inscribed by the parents of the subject of the memoir. Adin Ballou and his followers purchases 600 arces ofland on which they built homes for the community members, chapels, and the factories in a town known as Hopedale. Ballou believes he could create a utopian community of Practical Christianity that was not isolated from the greater community. The community stood for temperance, abolitionism, women's rights, spiritualism and education but Hopedale went backrupt fourteen years after the land was purchased. Very good, spine faded, corners and spine ends bumped, pages agetoned. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 36766

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou: Written and ...

Verlag: Community Press, Hopedale

Erscheinungsdatum: 1853

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st Edition.