This is study of six Chartist Leaders. It portrays movements for
democracy and social progress, and explores the role of the uneasy
middle classes, in movements for working class rights. The
comparative analysis provides insights in to the development of
dissent, the nature of class and of radicalism in the nineteenth
century. An introduction sketches the historical context. - Dr.
Peter M McDouall, fiery orator and Scottish surgeon, who built his
practise and his political reputation at Ramsbottom, near Bury in
Lancashire. - the Rev. Henry Solly, Chartist pamphleteer and
Unitarian Minister who lived and worked in Yeovil and Cheltenham
Spa and became a nationally-known campaigner for co-operatives,
anti-slavery, the vote, and rational recreation, - Rev. James
Scholefield, a chaplain from Manchester who campaigned for the ten
hour week: a teacher, apothecary, surgeon and vegetarian, - Richard
Bagnall Reed, a blacksmith, who became the manager of the Newcastle
Chronicle, he also ran guns to Garibaldi for Italian unification, -
William Villiers Sankey, an aristocrat, son of an Irish Volunteer
and Member of Parliament, who resided among the political elite of
London, he represented Edinburgh at the Chartist Convention, - The
Rev. Benjamin Parsons. a radical and political preacher who used
the Bible to justify campaigns for social justice, from the
Gloucestershire.
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