American Peace Society.
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American Peace Society.
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Peace Society United States
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Peace Society United States
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Société américaine de la paix
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Peace Society
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Formed in 1828 in New York City; headquarters later moved to Hartford, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
The American Peace Society was the first nationally based secular peace organization in the United States. It was formed in 1828 from the merging of several state and local peace societies of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dated from 1815. The American Peace Society organized peace conferences and published a periodical entitled Advocate of Peace . The headquarters of the organization moved to Hartford, then Boston, and finally Washington, D.C. where it remains today.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/128975101
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50063587
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50063587
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Activism and social reform
Arbitration, International
Society of Friends
Pacifism
Peace
Peace
Peace movements
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Pacifists
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United States
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Massachusetts--Boston
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