Book contents
- Friends of Freedom
- Friends of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
- 1 The Sons of Liberty and the Creation of a Movement Model
- 2 From Boycott Mobilization to the American Revolution
- 3 Wilkes, Liberty, and the Anglo-American Crisis
- 4 The British Association Movement and Parliamentary Reform
- 5 The Irish Volunteers and Militant Reform
- 6 Religious Freedom, Political Liberty, and Protestant Dissenter Civil Rights
- 7 The Rise of American Abolitionism
- 8 British Abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements
- Part II The French Revolution Radicalizes Social Movements
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Irish Volunteers and Militant Reform
from Part I - The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- Friends of Freedom
- Friends of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
- 1 The Sons of Liberty and the Creation of a Movement Model
- 2 From Boycott Mobilization to the American Revolution
- 3 Wilkes, Liberty, and the Anglo-American Crisis
- 4 The British Association Movement and Parliamentary Reform
- 5 The Irish Volunteers and Militant Reform
- 6 Religious Freedom, Political Liberty, and Protestant Dissenter Civil Rights
- 7 The Rise of American Abolitionism
- 8 British Abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements
- Part II The French Revolution Radicalizes Social Movements
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Amid an Enlightened era, dissenting religious groups clamored for toleration and/or religious freedom, mobilizing their own campaigns and helping staff with those of the era’s other prominent movements. British Dissenters had long sought repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which limited their rights of office-holding and other honors – while American colonists bristled against official churches that had also taken hold in the colonies. The American Revolution led to an upsurge in favor of religious freedom in America that overturned almost all religious restrictions by the 1790s, though British Dissenters’ movements over the same years met reversals from a stronger Establishment.
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- Friends of FreedomThe Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, pp. 121 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021