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From Pat Deveney's journal database:
White Banner, The. This was quite properly labeled a miscellany because it contained a variety of material that
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| White Banner V1 Jul 1851 | |
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The White Banner was George Lippard’s 1851 annual and the literary organ of his Brotherhood of the Union, a secret fraternal order founded to advance the cause of labor and the “producing classes.” Its pages braid Christian social-justice preaching with fraternal ritual address and Lippard’s own gothic-reform fiction, including his legends of Washington and lurid tableaux of prisons and catacombs. The recurring language of brotherhood and initiation belongs to the Brotherhood of the Union rather than to any occult school. It stands in this collection as a document of Christian labor-reform fraternalism, adjacent to but not part of the esoteric tradition. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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