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The American Tract Society (ATS) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian but evangelical organization founded on May 11, 1825, in New York City for the purpose of publishing and disseminating tracts of Christian literature. ATS traces its lineage back through the New York Tract Society (1812) and the New England Tract Society (1814) to the Religious Tract ...
pamphlets: A Brief History of the Organization and Wor1k of the American Tract Society instituted in Boston, 1814 (Boston, 1855); A Brief His-tory of the American Tract Society, instituted at Boston, 1814, and its relations to the American Tract Society at New York, instituted 1825 (Boston, 1857). 5 Brief History, 1855, 5. 117
In 1825, at the founding of the American Tract Society in New York, its leaders declared that with this event began “a new era in the history of the American churches.” Ten years earlier, American Protestants had formed the American Bible Society for the purpose of publishing and distributing the Bible “without note or comment.”
The American Tract Society, formed at New York, 1825. The New York Religious Tract Society, located in the commercial emporium, and with men of enterprise and liberality among its managers, in the year 1824 was contemplating the speedy organization of a National or General Society, with impressions favorable to its location in that city.
26 Νοε 2019 · The American Tract Society, an evangelical publisher, built one of the largest media distribution systems in antebellum America. Called “colportage” from 1841, the system mobilized hundreds of “colporteurs” who delivered tracts and books to people, mostly poor whites, in their homes across the United States. This article draws on ritual ...
American Tract Societies. As Jane Tompkins notes, the American Tract Society was "the first organization in America to publish and distribute the printed word on a mass scale." * Along with groups like the American Sunday School Union (publisher of the first two texts below), it printed millions of copies of hundreds of pamphlets and books ...
edited by the American Tract Society (ATS), invite a detailed examination of the text in relation to the evangelical aim of reaching and converting a mass audience. More intriguingly, The Dairyman's Daughter provides a case study of attempts by the ATS to secure a mass readership for the tract, and to en-sure a "correct" reading by its audience.
