Abner Kneeland (April 7, 1774 – August 27, 1844) was an American evangelist and theologian who advocated views on women's rights, racial equality, ...
Abner Kneeland
Abner Kneeland était un évangéliste et théologien américain qui défendait des points de vue sur les droits des femmes, l'égalité raciale et le scepticisme religieux qui étaient radicaux pour son époque. Wikipédia (anglais)
Date/Lieu de naissance : 7 avril 1774, Gardner, Massachusetts
Date de décès : 27 août 1844, Iowa
24 juil. 2024 · In 1838, American skeptic and freethinker, Abner Kneeland, was the last man prosecuted and jailed in the U.S. for the “crime” of blasphemy. He ...
1 The records of the trials of Kneeland have be. State Trials, John D. Lawson, Editor, xmI, 450-57. Shaw and Morton can be found in Massachusetts R.
Abner Kneeland was an 1838 Massachusetts state court case, notable for being the last time a court in the United States jailed a defendant for blasphemy.
Speech Of Abner Kneeland Delivered Before The Supreme Court Of The City Of Boston, In His Own Defence, On An Indictment For Blasphemy. November Term, 1834.
On this day in 1833, religious and social reformer Abner Kneeland printed a letter deemed so blasphemous by a Massachusetts court that it landed the former ...
Kneeland himself was a story of continually developing liberalism. In 1803 he became a Universalist after spending a few years as a Baptist preacher. He stayed ...
2 août 2022 · In 1838, Abner Kneeland, described by a judge as a "cantankerous and inflexible heretic," was ...
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18 juil. 2023 · This speech is a historic piece of American literature that challenges traditional religious beliefs and advocates for free thought. In it, ...