Pamphlet published in « The Tribune of People », January 1832
Forewords :
Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive Classes is a classic pamphlet of early chartist working class movement. It was self-published by William Benbow - a publicist and pamphleteer who worked in a coffee house at 205 Fleet Street, London, after apparently having an early career as an unconventional preacher in Manchester. Benbow was an advocate of armed revolutionary insurrection as a means of accomplishing his “national holiday”, and was eventually (...)
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